Automatic file system maintenance
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsGiampaolo Lauria, Anthony F. Pioli
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Abstract
A system, method and computer program product are provided for automatically maintaining a file system maintenance. Files are selected from the file system for deletion so as to achieve a predetermined usage level for the file system, and the files that were selected are deleted. The selection and the deletion are performed automatically according to a maintenance schedule. In a preferred embodiment, for the selection, the files are sorted using a sorting algorithm to produce a sorted list of files, and files are selected beginning at the top of the sorted list until deletion of the selected files would achieve the predetermined usage level for the file system. A system for automatically maintaining a file system is also provided.
Claims23
A method for automatically maintaining a file system, said method comprising the steps of:
- selecting files from the file system for deletion so as to achieve a predetermined usage level for the file system;
- and
- deleting the files that were selected,
- wherein the selecting step and the deleting step are performed automatically according to a maintenance schedule.
A machine-readable medium encoded with a program for automatically maintaining a file system, said program containing instructions for performing the steps of:
- selecting files from the file system for deletion so as to achieve a predetermined usage level for the file system;
- and
- deleting the files that were selected,
- wherein the selecting step and the deleting step are performed automatically according to a maintenance schedule.
A system for automatically maintaining a file system, said system comprising:
- a file selector for selecting files from the file system for deletion so as to achieve a predetermined usage level for the file system;
- and
- a file remover for deleting the files that were selected,
- wherein the file selector and the file remover automatically operate according to a maintenance schedule.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.