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SubjectRe: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()
Jörn Engel wrote:
> Does the allocation have to be persistent beyond lifetime of the file
> descriptor? It would be fairly simple to support the write guarantee
> while the file is open (or rather the inode remains cached) and drop it
> afterwards.

"The posix_fallocate() function shall ensure that any required storage
for regular file data starting at offset and continuing for len bytes is
allocated on the file system storage media."

I interpret "on the storage media" to mean that it is persistent.

-Eric
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