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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1495 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:44:34 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!network.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!decuac!pa.dec.com!vixie From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] truncating the beginning of a file Date: 16 Feb 93 12:21:01 Organization: DEC Network Systems Lab Lines: 13 Distribution: world Message-ID: <VIXIE.93Feb16122101@cognition.pa.dec.com> References: <1lm5qhINN8vb@life.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cognition.pa.dec.com In-reply-to: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu's message of 14 Feb 1993 19:16:33 GMT rather than change the inode, it would be great if we could add some fields to the data blocks themselves so that they could be partially allocated even if not at the end of the file. i'd love to be able to remove or insert data in the middle of files, and with block splitting and partial blocks it's an easy problem. it'll take a totally new file system, though. and it will be somewhat messy since data blocks will no longer be powers of two in size. -- Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab Palo Alto, California, USA "Don't be a rebel, or a conformist; <vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie they're the same thing, anyway. Find <paul@vix.com> vixie!paul your own path, and stay on it." -me