Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!fernwood!apple!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Reserving Space on Disk - Enough already Message-ID: Date: 19 Jul 90 21:42:27 GMT References: <563@hhb.UUCP> <1990Jul15.211608.26025@virtech.uucp> <13422@ulysses.att.com> <836@mwtech.UUCP> <139015@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 8 In article <139015@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> lm@sun.UUCP (Larry McVoy) writes: > Can we please get this drivel out of unix-wizards? Take it to unix-questions > where it belongs. Please. The actual underlying problem, that you can't pre-allocate space on disk for a file, is a real wizard-type problem. What sort of interface would you use to do this on UNIX? A "mkfile" system call, or a fcntl that says "allocate all blocks... don't leave holes"? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.