Re: ext4 features

Jeff Garzik
2006-07-04T18:52:51Z

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