From 475f4a59f2547941bae57856c3ad18e8f280b41b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrej Babic <andrej.babic@psi.ch>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:36:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add TODO to try fallocate instead of seek and write

---
 sf-buffer/src/BufferBinaryWriter.cpp | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/sf-buffer/src/BufferBinaryWriter.cpp b/sf-buffer/src/BufferBinaryWriter.cpp
index 61a72bd..92d835d 100644
--- a/sf-buffer/src/BufferBinaryWriter.cpp
+++ b/sf-buffer/src/BufferBinaryWriter.cpp
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ void BufferBinaryWriter::open_file(const std::string& filename)
     /** Setting the buffer file size in advance to try to lower the number of
         metadata updates on GPFS. */
     {
+        // TODO: Try instead to use fallocate.
         if (lseek(output_file_fd_, MAX_FILE_BYTES, SEEK_SET) < 0) {
             stringstream err_msg;