site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com hi, Any trick on how to prevent this from happening? regars, marc _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... I need to create a big file (20GB), the contents is not important, will fill that in later, just the file size... When I try to do this with lseek and then write one byte. as soon I close the file, it takes a few minutes because it looks like the OS is filling up the rest with 0x00 bytes during close or flush. File system is HFS+ This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com