Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Mar 1999 10:46:59 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: EXT2_UNRM_FL |
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Theodore Y. Ts'o writes: > 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.
I don't understand why you even want to poll. My approach was to clean up at safe-delete time: I just do a stat(2) to see if there is enough space left. If not, I start purging. And in your ~/.logout you can call the command to empty the wastebasket. If you want to get more fancy, set up a cron job or add something to the boot scripts to clean up.
Regards,
Richard....
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