8202261: (fc) FileChannel.map and RandomAccessFile.setLength should not preallocate space

[Alan Bateman]

On 21/05/2018 22:56, Ismael Juma wrote:
> Any thoughts on a backport to Java 8? Java 10 would be nice to have, 
> but Java 11 is not far away and I don't expect many users to stick 
> with Java 10 for long given the update policy. However, many users 
> will stick to Java 8 for a long time and it would be good to restore 
> the behaviour there.
>
I don't have cycles to get involved in changes for JDK 8 updates. 
However, I agree JDK-8168628 should be backed out from jdk8u.

-Alan