Why is posix_fallocate slow on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5?

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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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