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...XFS list about this, trying to tweak XFS mount options to mitigate the fragmentation effects. Alas, there is no way to do this purely at the filesystem level. From Dave Chinner, one of the lead XFS devs: "What you want is _physical_ preallocation, not speculative preallocation. i.e. look up XFS_IOC_RESVSP or FIEMAP so your application does _permanent_ preallocate past EOF. Alternatively, the filesystem will avoid the truncation on close() if the file has the APPEND attribute set and the application is writing via O_APPEND... The filesystem cannot do everything for you. Sometimes the application has...

...32, struct fsxattr) +#define XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP64 _IOW ('X', 36, struct xfs_flock64) +#define XFS_IOC_FREESP64 _IOW ('X', 37, struct xfs_flock64) +#define XFS_IOC_GETBMAP _IOWR('X', 38, struct getbmap) +#define XFS_IOC_FSSETDM _IOW ('X', 39, struct fsdmidata) +#define XFS_IOC_RESVSP _IOW ('X', 40, struct xfs_flock64) +#define XFS_IOC_UNRESVSP _IOW ('X', 41, struct xfs_flock64) +#define XFS_IOC_RESVSP64 _IOW ('X', 42, struct xfs_flock64) +#define XFS_IOC_UNRESVSP64 _IOW ('X', 43, struct xfs_flock64) +#define XFS_IOC_GETBMAPA _IOWR('X', 4...