Hi!
> 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.
>
> [ I
Hi!
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.
[ I realize this
On Fri, 16 November 2007 10:30:12 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> This, by the way, has been discussed on and off -- often in the context
> of undelete (which is an identical problem.) The problem usually is
> that performance of real storage users suffer because of locality
> issues.
Lee Revell wrote:
On Nov 15, 2007 5:24 PM, Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[ I realize this is probably better implemented outside of the kernel, but
it seems like it might be of interest here. Please redirect me to
a more appropriate place if you can think of one (other than
Lee Revell wrote:
On Nov 15, 2007 5:24 PM, Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ I realize this is probably better implemented outside of the kernel, but
it seems like it might be of interest here. Please redirect me to
a more appropriate place if you can think of one (other than
On Fri, 16 November 2007 10:30:12 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
This, by the way, has been discussed on and off -- often in the context
of undelete (which is an identical problem.) The problem usually is
that performance of real storage users suffer because of locality
issues. However,
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.
On Nov 15, 2007 5:24 PM, Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [ I realize this is probably better implemented outside of the kernel, but
> it seems like it might be of interest here. Please redirect me to
> a more appropriate place if you can think of one (other than
> /dev/null that
The normal situation on the memory is side is that most of the memory is
in use, but some pages are ready to be discarded, they're just kept
around because we have nothing better to do (yet) with that page.
Is there a tool to do something similar with file systems. I have a lot
of unimportant
The normal situation on the memory is side is that most of the memory is
in use, but some pages are ready to be discarded, they're just kept
around because we have nothing better to do (yet) with that page.
Is there a tool to do something similar with file systems. I have a lot
of unimportant
On Nov 15, 2007 5:24 PM, Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ I realize this is probably better implemented outside of the kernel, but
it seems like it might be of interest here. Please redirect me to
a more appropriate place if you can think of one (other than
/dev/null that is).
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.
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