From: "Lee Revell" <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Treat disk space like memory space
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:24:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <75b66ecd0711151624n476d2e83xd1acbb23a5bffcf0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr6irqhn2.fsf-monnier+gmane.linux.kernel@gnu.org>
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.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-16 0:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-15 22:24 Stefan Monnier
2007-11-16 0:03 ` Wes Felter
2007-11-16 0:24 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2007-11-16 18:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-16 19:34 ` Jörn Engel
2007-11-23 14:28 ` Pavel Machek
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