Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 May 1999 03:33:39 +0000 ( ) | From | Gerhard Mack <> | Subject | Re: Deletion of big files... |
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On Tue, 18 May 1999, Alex Buell wrote:
> Why not just queue them onto a kernel thread (i.e krmd) and let it delete > the files when the system is idle? > > When a user deletes the files, they do disappear, they just get reassigned > to krmd and that's it as far as the user is concerned. krmd wakes up at a > suitable free moment and deletes the queued stuff (maybe we can use the > timeslice interval to delete n amount of stuff and the go back to sleep, > wake up again delete another n amount).
As somone who is chrinically short of hd space I'm begging you not to.
Gerhard
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