Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Jul 2006 14:12:09 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: ext4 features |
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Hi!
> >>Actually, if it were so important it WOULD have been > >>done. I suspect that the issue is not lack of a good > >>solution, but lack of a good problem. The behavior you > >>propose requires a lot of kernel cleverness, including > >>make the inodes seem to go away, so the count is > >>"right" for what the user sees. > >> > > > >The real solution for it is snapshots. > > > Peter, > > Explain what you are thinking here. What I proposed, I > have already implemented in NetWare, it's very easy to > do. Snapshotting is not complex for FS's but does > require a lot of space for meta-data to manage it. EXT > is not architecteced for something this complex. A > simple hidden mv is much easier to do.
Patch would be nice :-).
Hidden mv is indeed simple; reclaiming space on demand may be trickier. Pavel -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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