Re: ext4 features

[Jeffrey V. Merkey]

Jeff Garzik wrote:

> 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


Possibly.  Organize the files in DELETED.SAV by disk location and 
date.     Files don't have to adhere to a strict date recycling 
process.  Make it a mount
option if the user wants strict date recycling.  Make the default to 
choose between date and file sector locality.

Jeff

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