Quick file allocation

[oremanj at get-linux.org]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 01:11:14PM -0700 or thereabouts, Rus Foster wrote:
> Hi All,
> Just wondered on FreeBSD is there a way that I can quickly create a file.
> When I mean quick I basically mean that the system just says that ok this
> file is allocataed inodes foo-bar rather than having to use mkfile 1G
> filename. Something like XFS's holey file support

open file
seek 1G in
write one zero byte
close file

Presto... sparse (AKA "holey", not "holy" :-) file.

-- Josh

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