On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 10:46, Mark Geisert via Cygwin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 1/28/2024 11:56 PM, Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote: > > On 1/28/2024 10:44 PM, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: > >> Good morning! > >> > >> rm -f myfile > >> touch myfile > >> /usr/bin/fallocate -v -d -l myfile takes forever with latest Cygwin 3.5 > > ^ length goes here, before filename > > > > I believe you need to > > chattr +S myfile > > after the 'touch' to make the file sparsifiable. > > > > Also, I'm unsure if '-d' makes sense when initially allocating a sparse > > file. If I leave it off, fallocate does the right thing. > > > > I'm separately investigating the 'takes forever' report. > > It's taking forever because it's in an infinite loop looking for data > followed by a hole, which is not present in a new file being created. > This is due to the '-d' option being specified. fallocate ought to > diagnose this condition rather than looping forever, but here we are. > > It's possible we have an old fallocate from an old util-linux package. > I'll try to investigate this further when I have time. >
Any update on this issue? Ced -- Cedric Blancher <[email protected]> [https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CedricBlancher/] Institute Pasteur -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
