Messages in this thread | | | From | "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <> | Subject | RE: kernel support for non-english user messages | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:02:08 -0700 |
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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.
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