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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 12:39:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Kenny Simpson <theonetruekenny@yahoo.com>
Subject: An nfs question ftruncate vs. pwrite
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When a file that is opened with normal flags (O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE) is on NFS, and
it is exteded via ftruncate, the new expty pages get read back from the server before the system
call returns:
  (from strace -T):
ftruncate64(3, 41943040)                = 0 <0.063866>


-Kenny


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