Pre-allocation sound like a very probably reason to me, it least if the
problem was related to streaming multiple files simultaneously, or even
streaming to a disk containing other files. How to avoid fragmentation
otherwise? (In the case of this kind of applications, a small fragment
is a few hundred kB...)
> They must have some resticitions, a largely unfragemented drive, AV disks
> and only a single application are some likely candiates. But the people
> who needed this simply accepted those limitations - I imagine if you
> wanted to do this on linux you'd start with a dedicated AV drive (no ecc,
> or thermal recalibrations - ment for realtime video streaming) that didn't
> have swap or the root filesystem on it..
>
> Jason
//David
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