Added file_preallocate() to preallocate space to a file without changing its size.

Implemented for Linux. Doesn't look like other OSes support this.

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 680f190ba69c619466f7d7059ae08d176e2abc7b..74ecb325051a9fb61d85fbcf48cccf1e211bb20d 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS(strings.h stdint.h unistd.h dirent.h malloc.h inttypes.h \
   sys/quota.h sys/fs/ufs_quota.h ufs/ufs/quota.h jfs/quota.h sys/fs/quota_common.h \
   mntent.h sys/mnttab.h sys/event.h sys/time.h sys/mkdev.h linux/dqblk_xfs.h \
   xfs/xqm.h execinfo.h ucontext.h malloc_np.h sys/utsname.h sys/vmount.h \
-  sys/utsname.h glob.h)
+  sys/utsname.h glob.h linux/falloc.h)
 
 dnl * gcc specific options
 if test "x$ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu" = "xyes"; then
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS(fcntl flock lockf inet_aton sigaction getpagesize madvise \
               setrlimit setproctitle seteuid setreuid setegid setresgid \
               strtoull strtoll strtouq strtoq \
               setpriority quotactl getmntent kqueue kevent backtrace_symbols \
-              walkcontext dirfd clearenv malloc_usable_size glob)
+              walkcontext dirfd clearenv malloc_usable_size glob fallocate)
 
 AC_CHECK_LIB(rt, clock_gettime, [
   AC_DEFINE(HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME,, Define if you have the clock_gettime function)

diff --git a/src/lib/file-set-size.c b/src/lib/file-set-size.c
index 88b1e02c06f5eb8701af777e29ef1c05bbac8a50..8908cc25e3d5107d53c6ad435be2559e77133599 100644 (file)
--- a/src/lib/file-set-size.c
+++ b/src/lib/file-set-size.c
@@ -7,12 +7,16 @@
 #ifdef HAVE_POSIX_FALLOCATE
 #  define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 /* Required by glibc, breaks Solaris 9 */
 #endif
+#define _GNU_SOURCE /* for fallocate() */
 #include "lib.h"
 #include "file-set-size.h"
 
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
+#ifdef HAVE_LINUX_FALLOC_H
+#  include <linux/falloc.h>
+#endif
 
 int file_set_size(int fd, off_t size)
 {
@@ -76,3 +80,15 @@ int file_set_size(int fd, off_t size)
        }
        return 0;
 }
+
+int file_preallocate(int fd ATTR_UNUSED, off_t size ATTR_UNUSED)
+{
+#if defined(HAVE_FALLOCATE) && defined(FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE)
+       /* Linux */
+       if (fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE, 0, size) < 0)
+               return errno == ENOSYS ? 0 : -1;
+       return 1;
+#else
+       return 0;
+#endif
+}

diff --git a/src/lib/file-set-size.h b/src/lib/file-set-size.h
index 65f10d803d702680c6b46135391345a2500df76b..6752d32ec6ac9d4acff6e3f0ae192e1cc8be862f 100644 (file)
--- a/src/lib/file-set-size.h
+++ b/src/lib/file-set-size.h
@@ -5,5 +5,9 @@
    be zeros. The file offset may be anywhere after this call.
    Returns -1 if failed, 0 if successful. */
 int file_set_size(int fd, off_t size);
+/* Preallocate file to given size, without actually changing the size
+   reported by stat(). Returns 1 if ok, 0 if not supported by this filesystem,
+   -1 if error. */
+int file_preallocate(int fd, off_t size);
 
 #endif