[Bug 14914] files are created as sparse files when they shouldn't

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14914





--- Comment #41 from Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at codeweavers.com>  2010-07-07 09:34:28 ---
(In reply to comment #40)
> So, basically this version behaves like the previous one. Unfortunately, any
> attempts to preallocate space leads to insanely decreased write speed. Probably
> we'll have to deal with heavily fragmented files, unless someone knows any
> other way to preallocate file space. Or maybe ext3 is just plane bad, and we
> should move to something more advanced (there are enough alternatives). Thanks
> for reading!

This confirms that it is not really a Wine bug but a deficiency of the Linux
file system.

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