Things to do this week instead of arguing about mixers

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Eric Sandeen wrote:

> This reservation is really done on a per-file granularity; it's not for
> doing things like "reserve me 8G of space for some number of files I may
> write later" - it's more like "reserve me 5.2M of space on this file
> descriptor; ok that worked now I'll write to it; rinse; repeat"
>
> So I'm not sure this directly helps the case where, say, the test
> transaction squeaks in with enough space, something else uses up some
> space after that, and then the real install of the rpm set fails ...

which is, sadly, exactly what I'd want to protect for.

oh well.

thanks,
-sv