Changes to RandomAccessFile in jdk9

Ivan Gerasimov ivan.gerasimov at oracle.com
Thu Apr 19 07:34:11 UTC 2018


Hello Enrico!

It must be due to fixing https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8168628

With kind regards,

Ivan


On 3/27/18 5:25 AM, Enrico Olivelli wrote:
> Hi,
> moving an application (in this case an Apache Kafka broker v 1.0) to 
> oracle jdk 9.0.4 (from 1.8) I have seen that 
> RandomAccessFile#setLength is now really allocating disk space, and 
> before it seemed to create SPARSE files.
> I am running on linux CentOS on ext4 fs.
> Reverting back to jdk 1.8 and forcing the broker to recreate files 
> they are in SPARSE mode
>
>
> Is this an intended behavior change? Is there any pointer to this change?
>
> Regards
> Enrico Olivelli
> -- 
>
>
> -- Enrico Olivelli
>

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With kind regards,
Ivan Gerasimov

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