From: Wes Felter <wesley@felter.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Treat disk space like memory space
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:03:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fhimnu$5bm$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr6irqhn2.fsf-monnier+gmane.linux.kernel@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> So I'd like to be able to say "these areas of my file-system hold data
> that you can discard whenever you need space". So I can freely fill up
> my disk with such irrelevant data, safe in the knowledge that if I ever
> need this disk space it'll be automatically reclaimed.
James Cipar, Mark D. Corner, Emery D. Berger: TFS: A Transparent File
System for Contributory Storage.
"TFS provides background tasks with large amounts of unreliable
storage-all of the currently available space-without impacting the
performance of ordinary file access operations."
http://www.usenix.org/event/fast07/tech/cipar.html
http://prisms.cs.umass.edu/tcsm/
It's intended for P2P but I could imagine using it for caches.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-16 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-15 22:24 Treat disk space like memory space Stefan Monnier
2007-11-16 0:03 ` Wes Felter [this message]
2007-11-16 0:24 ` Lee Revell
2007-11-16 18:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-16 19:34 ` Jörn Engel
2007-11-23 14:28 ` Pavel Machek
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