File fragmentation

[Rob Bosch]

Is this something that should be implemented at the rsync level or cygwin
level?  It would seem that is the opportunity to "pre-allocate" is available
it would be useful to make sure space is available for the new file.  

-----Original Message-----
From: hashproduct at gmail.com [mailto:hashproduct at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Matt
McCutchen
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 6:59 PM
To: Rob Bosch
Cc: rsync at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: File fragmentation

On 8/6/06, Rob Bosch <robbosch at msn.com> wrote:
> I was wondering why rsync doesn't preallocate the space like copy
> or other utilites do under Windows. This would insure you have the space
to
> create the new file plus it would reduce fragmentation since rsync would
be
> writing to a pre-allocated file space.

I don't think there's a reason that rsync shouldn't preallocate the
space.  Since there is no way to preallocate in POSIX, I guess no one
thought about preallocating in Windows.  However, if there is a system
call available through Cygwin, it would be easy to make rsync check
for the call at configure time and use it if it is present.

Matt