From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <02af01c38293$235b5f60$b9844051@insultant.net> From: "boyd, rounin" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <580ddc8b7111c39f7cd256e21b6a6508@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp> Subject: Re: [9fans] permission bit of /mail/box MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:58:14 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 45566b9c-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Am I thinkng wrong? yes. save _everything_. as it has been pointed out before various financial institutions are required by law to keep records for n years. anyway, disk is cheap. the old fileserver only copied the tree, with pointers to blocks, so an un-modified block would have one copy, but with multiple pointers. as for venti/fossil i can't say -- there's only so many thing a rounin can do.