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Re: [Wget-dev] wget2 | Preallocate file before starting downloading (#45


From: Darshit Shah
Subject: Re: [Wget-dev] wget2 | Preallocate file before starting downloading (#450)
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 22:17:09 +0000



What are the benefits to doing so?

Preallocating a file will make it significantly harder or maybe even impossible 
to resume downloads. Currently we `stat` the file to figure out where to 
continue from. With a pre allocated file, that becomes impossible.

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