FS#42037 - [rtorrent] [libtorrent] fallocate

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by cupcake (muffins) - Saturday, 20 September 2014, 17:17 GMT
Last edited by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Saturday, 13 December 2014, 21:25 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Jaroslav Lichtblau (Dragonlord)
Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
I don't think there's any reason that these are built without --with-posix-fallocate

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557521
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Closed by  Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Saturday, 13 December 2014, 21:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  No response
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Monday, 22 September 2014, 04:18 GMT
Should --with-posix-fallocate be the default upstream, then?
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Monday, 22 September 2014, 04:25 GMT
Also, our libtorrent build already finds fallocate and uses it. It seems to me that enabling posix_fallocate yields no advantage over that. See lines 108 to 118 of libtorrent-0.13.4's src/data/socket_file.cc for instance.

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