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SubjectRe: Tux3 Report: How fast can we fail?

On 05/26/2015 12:03 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> We identified the following quality metrics for this algorithm:
>>
>> 1) Never fails to detect out of space in the front end.
>> 2) Always fills a volume to 100% before reporting out of space.
>> 3) Allows rm, rmdir and truncate even when a volume is full.

This is definitely nonsense. You can not rm, rmdir and truncate
when the volume is full. You will need a free space on disk to perform
such operations. Do you know why?

M.T.

> Hmm. Can you also overwrite existing data in files when a volume is
> full? I guess applications expect that to work..
> Pavel



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