Comment 7 for bug 445592

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Charles Kerr (charlesk) wrote : Re: Transmission Ext4 / data loss?

Changing the default to preallocation in Transmission only requires a one-line change.
This is turned off by default because fallocate() can be extremely slow on ext3.
The current plan is to change the default after ext4 becomes more widespread.

Is there a way to test for the ext4 filesystem?