Ideas for changes to Unix filesystem

[John Lupien]

In article <422 at bria> uunet!bria!mike (Michael Stefanik) writes:
>In an article, socs.uts.edu.au!jeremy (Jeremy Fitzhardinge) writes:
>>3 - limited sized files
>Although this has some merit, I would much prefer to have cron fire
>up a script that simply trims down my growing log files, rather than
>burden the kernel with the job.

I quite agree that this does not need to be done in the kernel.
The original posting was talking about a kind of "fifo" file with
the data falling off a cliff when it gets to the end. This could
be done quite nicely at the user level with a file-based ring buffer.

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John R. Lupien
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