It's a waste of IO to fill the whole image before creating btrfs on it,
just wiping the first 1M, and then write 1 byte to the last position to
create a sparse file.
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
{
int loop_num;
u64 location = 0;
- char buf[4096];
+ char buf[SZ_4K];
int ret = 0, i;
ssize_t written;
- memset(buf, 0, 4096);
- loop_num = size / 4096;
+ memset(buf, 0, SZ_4K);
+
+ /* Only zero out the first 1M */
+ loop_num = SZ_1M / SZ_4K;
for (i = 0; i < loop_num; i++) {
- written = pwrite64(out_fd, buf, 4096, location);
- if (written != 4096)
+ written = pwrite64(out_fd, buf, SZ_4K, location);
+ if (written != SZ_4K)
ret = -EIO;
- location += 4096;
+ location += SZ_4K;
}
+
+ /* Then enlarge the file to size */
+ written = pwrite64(out_fd, buf, 1, size - 1);
+ if (written < 1)
+ ret = -EIO;
return ret;
}