Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 19:53 +0000, Nate Nielsen wrote: >>One problem with that (from having worked on disk recovery software) is >>that many filesystems become fragmented messes when once they get full. >>For any kind of file system performance it's a good idea to prevent the >>disk from ever becoming too full. > > This strikes me as less of a problem with the suggested approach and > more of an advantage of it. We try to make sure to empty the trash > before the disk gets to full.
Right, as long as 'disk full' isn't the event which empties (or purges) the Trash. Time-based criteria does have something going for it though. It might be easier for people who are not familiar with computers to understand. Nate -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
