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Re: mkfile -- create large files efficiently
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: mkfile -- create large files efficiently |
Date: |
Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:09:53 +0100 |
Matej Cepl wrote:
> OK, another turn around of fixes. This is just the last patch,
> whole branch is available at
> http://github.com/mcepl/coreutils/tree/truncate-fallocate (repo
> URL is git://github.com/mcepl/coreutils.git).
>
> One note about this patch is that I have unsuccesfully tried to
> use @bindir@ to have the script independent for the location of
> truncate binary -- unfortunately I haven't managed to persuade
> autofoo to expand @bindir@ completely, so I have finished with
> ${exec_prefix}/bin which is useless. I have now in the patch
> temporary /usr/bin/truncate, but I am turning myself towards
> stand that user should just have truncate executable in $PATH and
> to consider installation where mere truncate doesn't work as
> broken.
Thanks for working on this.
Did you see Eric's review feedback?
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/15718/focus=15969
Please separate your change into two parts.
One that adds the --allocate option to truncate,
since that's clearly useful. However, coreutils
definitely must be able to build (and truncate --allocate's
behavior must be specified) on systems that lack posix_fallocate.
Once that's in, we can discuss if/how to add mkfile. As mentioned
earlier, this may be a good excuse to start a staging directory,
contrib/. It could serve as a place to maintain small scripts that
we find useful, but that are still evolving... or maybe we're just
not sure they should be installed.
- Re: mkfile -- create large files efficiently, (continued)
- Re: mkfile -- create large files efficiently, Matej Cepl, 2009/02/08
- Re: mkfile -- create large files efficiently, Pádraig Brady, 2009/02/08
- Re: mkfile -- create large files efficiently, Jim Meyering, 2009/02/09
- [PATCH] Trying to finalize loose ends of truncate.c fallocate, Matej Cepl, 2009/02/27
- Re: [PATCH] Trying to finalize loose ends of truncate.c fallocate, Eric Blake, 2009/02/27
- Re: [PATCH] Trying to finalize loose ends of truncate.c fallocate, Pádraig Brady, 2009/02/27
- Re: [PATCH] Trying to finalize loose ends of truncate.c fallocate, Matej Cepl, 2009/02/27
- Re: [PATCH] Trying to finalize loose ends of truncate.c fallocate, Eric Blake, 2009/02/28
- Re: mkfile -- create large files efficiently, Matej Cepl, 2009/02/27
- [PATCH] Following up on the comments from the upstream, Matej Cepl, 2009/02/27
- Re: mkfile -- create large files efficiently,
Jim Meyering <=