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From: David Arendt <admin-/LHdS3kC8BfYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>
Subject: some questions
Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 18:16:59 +0200
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I am very interested in nilfs2 so I have some questions ?

1. If I understood well, nilfs is always appending to the end (is this 
true or is also other data modified, for example to update pointers ?). 
What is happening if I have deleted files and cleanerd deletes the 
snapshots ? Will this space be written by further write operations or 
will it be lost ?
2. I suppose that some fragmentation will build up, is there any 
defragmentation tool planned ?
3. How robust is nilfs to device errors like bad sectors ? For example 
if you have a disk image where bad sectors are replaced by zeros, will 
you still be able to recover data from other sectors ?