libfallocate

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ABOUT libfallocate

Filesystems can avoid fragmentation if they know how large files will be. This library provides a wrapper for the fallocate() syscall (like glibc-2.10+), but also knows the xfs/ocfs2 ioctl and provides fallbacks better than posix_fallocate().