Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.

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From: jrodman
Subject: Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.
Date: 23:37 on 19 Dec 2006
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 05:27:59PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
> > cause a file to be removed, or removed right away.  This matters when
> > you are out of disk space, and so perhaps I am unsympathetic because I
> > have never been out of disk space.  Otherwise, I think it doesn't really
> > matter, and offers a lot of benefits.
> 
> In addition, the first few messages in the exchange indicated to me that the
> real culprit was a buggy file system or other system component, because he
> claimed he had to fsck... not merely remount... the file system to recover
> the space.

Oh, I thought this too, but forgot about it as I read through the whole
tree.

A buggy filesystem is pretty awful.  Given that it's redhat, I bet it's
ext3, which essentially is the same as ext2, and thus is around 13 years
old at this point.  A 13 year old filesystem that munges itself:
awesome.

-josh

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