Re: Tux3 Report: How fast can we fail?

[Mosis Tembo]

On 05/26/2015 12:03 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > We identified the following quality metrics for this algorithm:
> >
> >   1) Never fails to detect out of space in the front end.
> >   2) Always fills a volume to 100% before reporting out of space.
> >   3) Allows rm, rmdir and truncate even when a volume is full.

This is definitely nonsense. You can not rm, rmdir and truncate
when the volume is full. You will need a free space on disk to perform
such operations. Do you know why?

M.T.

> Hmm. Can you also overwrite existing data in files when a volume is
> full? I guess applications expect that to work..
> 									Pavel

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