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inigyoutoday at 4:44 PM1 replyview on HN

I wish ext4 had a feature to mark a file as "atomic" where it would allocate all atomic files in a long run, without room for expansion, and I suppose with very inefficient compaction upon deletion, but without any padding bytes.


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giancarlostorotoday at 5:44 PM

A file “pointer” for byte exact files, pointer gets ditched for files that get updated or the pointer gets adjusted to another common file.