Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266295AbUFYHwO (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 03:52:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266297AbUFYHwO (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 03:52:14 -0400 Received: from www02.ies.inet6.fr ([62.210.153.202]:27852 "EHLO smtp.ies.inet6.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266295AbUFYHwL (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 03:52:11 -0400 Message-ID: <40DBD9AD.8070503@inet6.fr> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:52:13 +0200 From: Lionel Bouton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040519) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek Cc: alan , "Fao, Sean" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Amit Gud Subject: Re: Elastic Quota File System (EQFS) References: <20040624213041.GA20649@elf.ucw.cz> <20040624220318.GE20649@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20040624220318.GE20649@elf.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Trusted: [ ip=62.210.105.37 rdns=ppp3290-cwdsl.fr.cw.net helo=proxy.inet6-interne.fr by=smtp.ies.inet6.fr ident= ] [ ip=192.168.55.3 rdns=192.168.55.3 helo=!192.168.55.3! by=proxy.inet6-interne.fr ident= ] X-Spam-DCC: dcc.uncw.edu: web02.inet6.ies 1201; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Assassin: No hits=0.0 required=4.5 X-Spam-Untrusted: X-Spam-Pyzor: Reported 0 times. X-Spam-Report: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1143 Lines: 31 Pavel Machek wrote the following on 06/25/2004 12:03 AM : >Of course, if mozilla marked them "elastic" it should better be >prepared for they disappearance. I'd disappear them with simple >unlink(), so they'd physically survive as long as someone held them >open. > > > Doesn't work reliably : the deletion is done in order to reclaim space that is needed now. You may want to retry unlinking files until you reach the free space needed, but this is clearly a receipe for famine : process can wait on writes an unspecified amount of time. -- Lionel Bouton - inet6 --------------------------------------------------------------------- o Siege social: 51, rue de Verdun - 92158 Suresnes / _ __ _ Acces Bureaux: 33 rue Benoit Malon - 92150 Suresnes / /\ /_ / /_ France \/ \/_ / /_/ Tel. +33 (0) 1 41 44 85 36 Inetsys S.A. Fax +33 (0) 1 46 97 20 10 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/