Re: ext4 features

Jeffrey V. Merkey
2006-07-04T16:29:43Z

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

>>There are some big problems with "deleted" however and doing it in
>>kernel space. A lot of programs just overwrite data. You would have to
>>look for things like O_TRUNC on a file open and ftruncate.
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>At least I only want deleted files to be saved, not truncated. The way
>the MSWIN (the gui parts) do it is enough for most users.
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>Jan Engelhardt
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Well,

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.

Jeff