On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:

> We identified the following quality metrics for this algorithm:
>
>  1) Never fails to detect out of space in the front end.
>  2) Always fills a volume to 100% before reporting out of space.
>  3) Allows rm, rmdir and truncate even when a volume is full.


This is definitely nonsense. You can not rm, rmdir and truncate
when the volume is full. You will need a free space on disk to perform
such operations. Do you know why?

M.T.

 

Hmm. Can you also overwrite existing data in files when a volume is
full? I guess applications expect that to work..
                                                                        Pavel
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