File debian.control of Package libfallocate
Source: libfallocate
Section: SystemLibraries
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Kurt Garloff <kurt@garloff.de>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.16), autoconf
Package: libfallocate0
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Description: libfallocate provides an interface for applications to tell filesystems
about the size of to-be-written files, so the filesystem can do a better
job in taking allocation decisions to avoid fragmentation.
libfallocate provides a wrapper for the fallocate() syscall in case your
glibc (<2.10) does not have it yet. It also provides linux_fallocate()
which will attempt the space reservation ioctl that xfs and ocfs2
provide in case fallocate() did not succeed.
It has an additional richer interface fallocate_with_fallback() that
allows you to instruct it to fallback to do preallocation by zeroing
things out (like posix_fallocate()) or to extend the file size by a sparse
write (like a successful fallocate() with mode==0 would have done).
Package: libfallocate-dev
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Recommends: libfallocate0 (= ${binary:Version})
Description: libfallocate provides an interface for applications to tell filesystems
about the size of to-be-written files, so the filesystem can do a better
job in taking allocation decisions to avoid fragmentation.
This package contains the header files needed for development as well as the static library.