Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:52:24 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: ext4 features |
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Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote: > The old novell model is simple. When someone unlinks a file, don't > delete it, just mv it to another special directory called DELETED.SAV. > Then setup the > fs space allocation to reuse these files when the drive fills up by > oldest files first. It's very simple. Then you have a salvagable file > system.
Such a scheme makes it much more difficult to allocate large, contiguous runs of free space for storing newly written data.
Jeff
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