Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 3 Mar 1999 18:37:48 -0500 (EST) | | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | | Subject | Re: EXT2_UNRM_FL |
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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 10:26:46 +1100 From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
(d) why not do it in userspace anyway? I did that years ago, although I "moved" files to /tmp, but it would be easy enough to move to a garbage/$LOGNAME directory on the same FS.
Absolutely, agreed. As I said earlier, there are plenty of user-space "rm" replacements, and doing it in the kernel is almost certainly not worth the pain.
It might be worth it for the kernel to add a wakeup to the undelete daemon telling it that space is low and it should remove some of the deleted files, but I'd want to see how well a strategy of polling every minute works (or doesn't work) before deciding whether the extra kernel bloat was worth it.
- Ted
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