Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:24:57 -0500 | From | "Lee Revell" <> | Subject | Re: Treat disk space like memory space |
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On Nov 15, 2007 5:24 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: > [ 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). ]
It would require some kernel support to reclaim the storage from the caching application rather than returning -ENOSPC when a "normal" app needs the storage. Even if you make the caching app free the space by itself you need a kernel mechanism to signal it when this happens.
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