Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] non-destructive editing
From: David Olofson (audiality_AT_swipnet.se)
Date: la loka 09 1999 - 16:55:21 EDT
On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, rob wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, David Olofson wrote:
>
> > BTW, does anyone know of a fs that allows removing blocks in the middle of
> > files? (It's possible to do, but I'm not sure I would want to see the
> > resulting mess... :-)
>
> i would expect that most filesystems that use linked-list/tree
> based file allocation schemes would allow it, although the api might not
> support it directly.
Not very different from truncating files, actually.
> the only thing you'd have to deal with beside fixing
> up inodes, is dealing with the leftovers that weren't deleted from the
> same block.
Exactly. "Micro fragmentation"...
//David
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