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by PhilipRoman
387 days ago
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You can do it via fallocate(2) FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE and FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE but sadly these still have a lot of limitations and are not portable. Based on discussions I've read, it seems there is no real motivation for implementing support for it, since anyone who cares about the performance of doing this will use some DB format anyway. In theory, files should be just unrolled linked lists (or trees) of bytes, but I guess a lot of internal code still assumes full, aligned blocks. |
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