Why is posix_fallocate slow on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5?
Issue
- Pre-allocating a large file with posix_fallocate() takes a very long time on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5)
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- kernel prior to kernel-2.6.18-128.el5
- glibc-2.5-*
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