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Subject: Re: journalised filesystem
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Its a good thing disk space is getting cheaper then eh?

:)

Dave
> There's one catch. Soft udpates causes free space to be available
> slightly slower than otherwise. I don't mean that deleting a file is
> slower - I believe the opposite is true - but that you aren't able to
> use the space that's been freed by deleting the file immediately. So
> the sequence of deleting and then recreating a file larger than the
> free space on the drive will fail where it wouldn't have before.
> 
> The only time I've ever seen this happen in practice is installing a
> new kernel on a small root file system.
> 
> 	<mike
> --
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