This could also be cosmetic. You cannot reuse the space
until the file is really gone. I agree that it's a nice
optimization for when your filesystem is almost full,
but I don't think it is worth the complexity.
Unless, of course, someone can produce a piece of code
that does all this in such a simple and elegant way that
we all want to have it in the kernel... (if only because
of it's elegance ;)
Rik -- Open Source: you deserve to be in control of your data.
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