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SubjectRe: Elastic Quota File System (EQFS)
Pavel Machek wrote the following on 06/25/2004 12:03 AM :

>Of course, if mozilla marked them "elastic" it should better be
>prepared for they disappearance. I'd disappear them with simple
>unlink(), so they'd physically survive as long as someone held them
>open.
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>
>

Doesn't work reliably : the deletion is done in order to reclaim space
that is needed now. You may want to retry unlinking files until you
reach the free space needed, but this is clearly a receipe for famine :
process can wait on writes an unspecified amount of time.


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