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Re: autoclean mode for tmpfs



On Sun, 7 Aug 2011 18:04:43 +0200
manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus) wrote:

> Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > Personally?  I'd say that scheduling it should be done by userland, but
> > that putting the actual removal in the filesystem makes sense.
> 
> Yes, a TTL attribute on an inode: once it expires, the filesystem tosses
> the file on next access attempt.
> 
> -- 
> Emmanuel Dreyfus
> http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
> manu%netbsd.org@localhost

Thats a horrible idea. Please think over. :-)


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