This is only ever called with a recursive space map wrapper,
and that causes too many false positives. False positives trigger
a copy of a metadata page, so this is a false economy.
Preserve the input block first to avoid reusing it in subsequent
shadow operations, e.g., shadow another block when releasing
a recursive lock. (issue #97)
* [file_utils] spin-off syscall-related file operations
1. Eliminate the potential circular dependency between
persistent-data/block.h and persistent-data/file_utils.h,
if the former one wants to include the latter.
2. Avoid namespace pollution by removing the "using namespace std"
declaration in block.tcc.
3. Correct the header hierarchy: base/xml_utils.h now no longer
depends on the higher-level persistent-data/file_utils.h
* [file_utils] support block files in get_file_length()
new_block() is now a concrete method implemented using the virtual
find_free() and inc() methods.
recursive space map is better at giving correct reference counts.
