Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755350AbXKYR07 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:26:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753665AbXKYR01 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:26:27 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:3590 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753413AbXKYR0Z (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:26:25 -0500 Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:28:17 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Stefan Monnier Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Treat disk space like memory space Message-ID: <20071123142817.GA10859@ucw.cz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1037 Lines: 23 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 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). ] Actually, you'll probably need fs hooks for reliable operation. And yes, someone finally implementing this would be welcome :-). -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/