RE: kernel support for non-english user messages

[Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky]

> 3) Version a 500 megabyte file.  Change one block.  Do it a few more
times.
> Are you better off copying the whole file (which bloats your disk usage
and
> kills your I/O bandwidth), or keeping deltas (the list of allocated blocks
could be
> almost identical except for the replaced/rewritten blocks).  However, this
DOES
> make doing an fsck() a *lot* more interesting - is a block allocated to
multiple
> files in error or not?

For this I would yield to a mechanism similar to COW, block you modify,
block you copy ... it would impose some restrictions here and there, 
but it'd work, I'd say - still it is fun for fsck(), as you are changing
some semantics, but it'd be interesting.

Iñaky Pérez-González -- Not speaking for Intel -- all opinions are my own
(and my fault)