Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.5 items

> > Nothing is wrong with it.  I just thought it would be more reliable to
> > unlink it, but now am considering I was wrong.
> 
> Just a thought, but if you left it zero length, the dba could use it as a
> means for estimating disk space requirements? :)  buff.0 buff.1 is zero
> lenght, but buff.2 isn't, we know that we've filled 2x1gig buffers plus a
> little bit, so can allocate space accordingly? :)
> 
> I'm groping here, help me out ... :)
> 

One reason to do truncate is that if it is a symbolic link to another
driver, that link will stay, while unlink will not, and will recreate on
on the same drive.

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