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This is a regression

This is a regression

Posted Mar 15, 2009 15:18 UTC (Sun) by dcoutts (guest, #5387)
In reply to: This is a regression by nix
Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

It doesn't have to keep everything in memory. It would be a simple variation on btrfs or any similar persistent filesystem. It could write all the new data to disk but not update the root node until you bludgeon it with fsync.


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