/* This code is part of Freenet. It is distributed under the GNU General
 * Public License, version 2 (or at your option any later version). See
 * http://www.gnu.org/ for further details of the GPL. */
package freenet.support.io;

import java.io.File;

public interface PersistentFileTracker extends DiskSpaceChecker {

    /** While resuming, register a file with the garbage collector so that it doesn't get deleted
     * when startup has finished and we cleanup the persistent-temp dir. We will only delete files
     * which were present at startup and have not been claimed; new files are fine. */
	public void register(File file);
	
	/** A positive number incremented on every transaction. */
	public long commitID();

	/** Notify that we have finished with a bucket and it should be freed after the
	 * next serialization to disk.
	 * @param bucket The bucket to free.
	 * @param createdCommitID 0 if the bucket was created before the last node restart, otherwise
	 * the return value of commitID() when it was created. If there hasn't been a commit, we can
	 * free the bucket immediately...
	 */
	public void delayedFree(DelayedFree bucket, long createdCommitID);

	/**
	 * Get the persistent temp files directory.
	 */
	public File getDir();

	public FilenameGenerator getGenerator();
	
}