From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 03:46:58 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH] Use fallocate() to create loop device backing file
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----- Original Message -----
> Creating large loop device backing files using tst_fill_file() on shared
> testing machines  may lead to performance issues and timeouts. Preallocating
> space using fallocate() is fast and sufficient.
> 
> Space allocation will fall back to tst_fill_file() if fallocate() fails for
> any
> other reason than lack of space.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Doucha <mdoucha@suse.cz>

Acked-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>