Package: aria2 Version: 1.9.4-1 Severity: wishlist Using posix_fallocate() is much better than allocating files by writing 0s to them, at least on filesystems that support it (e.g. ext4,btrfs,xfs).
On other file systems, it would block aria2 completely until it completes. It might be possible to use multiple posix_fallocate() calls with small 'len' to have progress display on those filesystems. Another idea would be to use posix_fallocate() if the file that shall be allocated is located on a filesystem that supports it. Using the Linux fallocate() syscall and falling back to writing 0s if it returns ENOSYS might also work, but I have not checked it. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers experimental APT policy: (990, 'experimental'), (990, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages aria2 depends on: ii libc-ares2 1.7.3-1 library for asyncronous name resol ii libc6 2.11.2-1 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-5 GCC support library ii libgcrypt11 1.4.5-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libgnutls26 2.8.6-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libsqlite3-0 3.6.23.1-4 SQLite 3 shared library ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxml2 2.7.7.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages aria2 recommends: ii ca-certificates 20090814 Common CA certificates aria2 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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