Re: ext4 features

[Jeff Garzik]

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


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