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  • · Use fallocate64 () for fast file preallocation on systems that support it

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010

  • Improvements have been done on the UPnP port forwarding option too, and support for file preallocation on XFS filesystems was added.

    Softpedia News - Global 2009

  • I have 2x320 GB SATA drives on ext3 and don't like he performance - slow deletion of files, preallocation in azureus takes quite some time (even with noatime mount option and dir_index).

    Ubuntu Forums 2009

  • It tends to fragment too with some other torrent clients that don't play nicely with preallocation, ...

    Ubuntu Forums 2009

  • Improvements have been carried out to DHT announce management and to file preallocation on embedded systems.

    Softpedia News - Global 2009

  • Theodore Ts'o (9): ext4: Use ext4_msg () for ext4_da_writepage () errors ext4: Fix hueristic which avoids group preallocation for closed files ext4: Adjust ext4_da_writepages () to write out larger contiguous chunks ext4: EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT: Check for different original and donor inodes first ext4, jbd2: Drop unneeded printks at mount and unmount time ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace file jbd2: Use tracepoints for history file ext4: Fix time encoding with extra epoch bits ext4: fix a BUG_ON crash by checking that page has buffers attached to it

    Linux.com :: Features 2009

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