Stefan Monnier wrote:
So I'd like to be able to say "these areas of my file-system hold data
that you can discard whenever you need space". So I can freely fill up
my disk with such irrelevant data, safe in the knowledge that if I ever
need this disk space it'll be automatically reclaimed.
James Cipar, Mark D. Corner, Emery D. Berger: TFS: A Transparent File
System for Contributory Storage.
"TFS provides background tasks with large amounts of unreliable
storage-all of the currently available space-without impacting the
performance of ordinary file access operations."
http://www.usenix.org/event/fast07/tech/cipar.html
http://prisms.cs.umass.edu/tcsm/
It's intended for P2P but I could imagine using it for caches.
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