Ideas for changes to Unix filesystem

[Jeff Makey]

In article <1991Jan30.143326.16676 at socs.uts.edu.au> jeremy at socs.uts.edu.au (Jeremy Fitzhardinge) writes:
>2 - insertion/deletion in the middle of a file without copying
 [...]
>3 - limited sized files

Both of these wishes could be granted by combining a variant of
ftruncate() that deletes bytes from arbitrary sections of a file with a
new kernel call that efficiently creates empty space in the middle of a
file.

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