File fragmentation

[Steve Bonds]

On 8/14/06, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> Only rsync knows how much data it plans to write, so rsync would have
> to make some sort of call to provide the eventual file size.  I don't
> know anything about the Windows call for preallocating space or
> whether it is available through Cygwin.  If I get a chance, I will try
> to find out.

I don't think this is available via cygwin:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00108.html

  -- Steve