Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:40:38 -0600 | From | "Jeffrey V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: ext4 features |
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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
Possibly. Organize the files in DELETED.SAV by disk location and date. Files don't have to adhere to a strict date recycling process. Make it a mount option if the user wants strict date recycling. Make the default to choose between date and file sector locality.
Jeff
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