Re: [RFC] Rollback FS

From: Levente Kurusa
Date: Tue Oct 22 2013 - 10:29:59 EST


2013-10-20 17:22 keltezéssel, jiaweiwei írta:
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Levente Kurusa <levex@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 2013-10-20 15:19 keltezéssel, jiaweiwei írta:
>>> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Levente Kurusa <levex@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>>> A good catch. Following ideas would be suitable.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1, Keep the blocks or inodes by a parameter we give.
>>>>> 2, Keep the blocks or inodes for several seconds.
>>>> Keep them where? On the HDD? We just deleted/moved that.
>>>
>>> Delete/move a file with a parameter, which would keep the blocks or inodes
>>> in-place. Or we would keep the blocks or inodes for several seconds.
>>
>> The problem with keeping the inodes/blocks for several seconds is
>> that you would need to find a magic number that is not small enough,
>> because if it is, then what if the user doesn't notice the problem
>> during a long operation? If the magic number is big, then we waste a
>> lot of space.
>>
>> The problem with the parameter thing is that again, all the different
>> filesystems need to support that feature. We can't just tell Ext3 or JFFS2 on the VFS level,
>> that 'Hey, keep those inodes in place incase someone just made himself some headache.'
>>
>
> Above you said are what we should do.
I never said that.
> Don't waste time, let me design and
> implement it. I would send design document for review, thanks.
Do it, but I don't think it would be accepted.


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Regards,
Levente Kurusa
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