On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 11:24:52AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > You could, of course, change your filesystem so that it'd have a separate > "soon-to-be-deleted" table on the disk, which needn't be empty for the > fs to be mounted read-only; with the behaviour that if an open file has > its last link removed it gets added to the soon-to-be-deleted table, > and when the filesystem is mounted read-write, the table is scanned for > files that aren't currently open and thus can be deleted. It'd be a bit > strange for "mount -o remount,rw /foo" to suddenly start deleting stuff > off your disk, though. Actually, that wouldn't bother me in the least. Some brave soul wanna propose it to l-k and get his ass flamed? -- G. Branden Robinson | I must despise the world which does Debian GNU/Linux | not know that music is a higher branden@debian.org | revelation than all wisdom and http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | philosophy. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
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