Investigate improving pre-allocation on NTFS

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    • Type: Improvement
    • Resolution: Won't Fix
    • Priority: Minor - P4
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    • Affects Version/s: 2.2.0
    • Component/s: Storage
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    • Environment:
      Windows
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      Looks like there may be support for doing this better/faster than writing zeros to the file, see:

      http://stackoverflow.com/questions/455297/creating-big-file-on-windows/455302#455302

      (Use the Win32 API, CreateFile, SetFilePointerEx, SetEndOfFile, and CloseHandle.)

            Assignee:
            Ben Becker (Inactive)
            Reporter:
            Clifford Hammerschmidt
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