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    SubjectRe: ext4 features
    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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