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<p>Has any there been any discussion as to allowing a user to modify
the striping of a file until the first extent is made? There are
a lot of opens that can not be easily replaced with <b>llapi_file_open</b>(),
such as <b>openat</b>() family, <b>mkstemp</b>() family, and <b>fopen</b>()
family.</p>
<p>It seems that it should be feasible to change the file's striping
even after the file is created but not written to.</p>
<p>It would be really handy to have a function <b>llapi_fd_set_stripe</b>(
int fd, ... ) to set the striping for a file that has been opened
but not written to. I have gotten past my immediate need for
setting the striping of a file opened with <b>fopen64</b>() by
doing the <b>llapi_file_open</b>() and then using the resulting
fd in <b>fdopen</b>(). But this approach is not applicable to
all listed above.<br>
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<p>Thanks, John<br>
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