go-ethereum/consensus/ethash/mmap_help_other.go

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// Copyright 2021 The go-ethereum Authors
// This file is part of the go-ethereum library.
//
// The go-ethereum library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
//
// The go-ethereum library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
// GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
//
// You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
// along with the go-ethereum library. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
//go:build !linux
// +build !linux
package ethash
import (
"os"
)
// ensureSize expands the file to the given size. This is to prevent runtime
// errors later on, if the underlying file expands beyond the disk capacity,
// even though it ostensibly is already expanded, but due to being sparse
// does not actually occupy the full declared size on disk.
func ensureSize(f *os.File, size int64) error {
// On systems which do not support fallocate, we merely truncate it.
// More robust alternatives would be to
// - Use posix_fallocate, or
// - explicitly fill the file with zeroes.
return f.Truncate(size)
}