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From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:31:18 -0800
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On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 03:23:19PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> I certainly agree that we want something like this.
> 
> posix_fallocate() is the glibc interface we want to be compatible with 
> (which your definition is, AFAICS).

This would be great for Samba. Windows clients do this a lot....

Jeremy.