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Message-ID: <75b66ecd0711151624n476d2e83xd1acbb23a5bffcf0@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:24:57 -0500
From: "Lee Revell" <rlrevell@...-job.com>
To: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@....umontreal.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Treat disk space like memory space
On Nov 15, 2007 5:24 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@....umontreal.ca> 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). ]
It would require some kernel support to reclaim the storage from the
caching application rather than returning -ENOSPC when a "normal" app
needs the storage. Even if you make the caching app free the space by
itself you need a kernel mechanism to signal it when this happens.
Lee
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