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Feature request: For avoiding fragmenting files please use fallocate()

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#5826 · opened 2018-10-10 by NTMan · updated 2018-10-10 · 2 comments · github
NNTMan 2018-10-10 github

I wrote a script that shows the Top 100 fragmented files. As turned out these files are games downloaded by the Steam client.

To avoid fragmentation and improve performance, kernel developers recommend using fallocate ()

Details on the link: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-xfs/msg22559.html

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fallocate.2.html

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2018-10-10 github

Hello @NTMan, this feature request is already being tracked at #542. Closing as a duplicate.

NNTMan 2018-10-10 github

Oh it five year old proposal and nothing was made.

Is possible speed up the reaction of Valve developers?

Nothing extracted yet.