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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
