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How close is this to a large continuous tape loop for video surveillance? I would very much welcome a filesystem that breaks away from the directories/files pa
by Rygian 4y ago
How close is this to a large continuous tape loop for video surveillance?
I would very much welcome a filesystem that breaks away from the directories/files paradigm. Any time-based data store would greatly benefit from that.
- rcthompson 4y agoI think all you would need to add is a daemon that automatically deletes the oldest file(s) whenever free space drops below a certain threshold, so that the filesystem GC can reclaim that space for new files.
- Rygian 4y agoI know and use 'logrotate'. My point was more on the tracks of a filesystem where a single file can be overwritten over and over again, and it's up to the filesystem to transparently ensure the full capacity of the disk is put towards retaining old versions of the file.
- tommiegannert 4y agoIf NILFS is continuously checkpointing, couldn't you even remove the file right after you add it, for simplicity?