[rrd-developers] bus error when disk is full, with mmap & sparse file

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Richard Laager wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 07:22 +0100, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
> > * with the patch, we get performance and a sort of thin provisioning (files
> >   with holes).
>
> fallocate() does not create holes. From fallocate(2), "After a
> successful call, subsequent writes into this range are guaranteed not to
> fail because of lack of disk space."
>
> fallocate() is Linux-specific. The portable equivalent is
> posix_fallocate(). On Linux, that does much the same thing as with this
> patch; it tries fallocate() first and then falls back to zero-filling.
> I'm not sure if that zero filling code performs better or worse than
> your mmap() code.

oops my bad :-) ok ... posix_fallocate then ...

cheers
tobi
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