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.
James Cipar, Mark D. Corner, Emery D. Berger: TFS: A Transparent File System for Contributory Storage.
"TFS provides background tasks with large amounts of unreliable storage-all of the currently available space-without impacting the performance of ordinary file access operations."
http://www.usenix.org/event/fast07/tech/cipar.html http://prisms.cs.umass.edu/tcsm/ It's intended for P2P but I could imagine using it for caches. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
