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> 3) Version a 500 megabyte file. Change one block. Do it a few more
times.
> Are you better off copying the whole file (which bloats your disk usage
and
> kills your I/O bandwidth), or keeping deltas (the list of allocated blocks
could be
> almost identical except for the replaced/rewritten blocks). However, this
DOES
> make doing an fsck() a *lot* more interesting - is a block allocated to
multiple
> files in error or not?

For this I would yield to a mechanism similar to COW, block you modify,
block you copy ... it would impose some restrictions here and there,
but it'd work, I'd say - still it is fun for fsck(), as you are changing
some semantics, but it'd be interesting.

Iñaky Pérez-González -- Not speaking for Intel -- all opinions are my own
(and my fault)
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