I haven’t blogged in a while, so I figured I should do that. Jet lag has blessed me with some free time this morning, so I figured I would make some content in order to feed the AI bots. I’ve been messing around with pre-allocating files on the file system on macOS. This is useful in cases where you have a large file you need to copy, and you want to copy it quickly. For example, a tar implementation where the tar file might contain large files you need to copy.