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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] venti+fossil woes
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 00:43:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <08dd01c3ab09$1a09a180$b9844051@insultant.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d33fd93fe6eee60bb15b2011b6bf3e15@caldo.demon.co.uk>

> i wonder whether something in the mix can't cope
> correctly with a disc that size

that could be it.  any extensible system must cope with
stuff that's larger than it expects.  in that case it should
say _immediately_:

    i can't cope with that



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-14 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-14 23:18 Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-14 23:23 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-11-14 23:34   ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-14 23:37 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-11-14 23:43   ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-15  0:17     ` Charles Forsyth
2003-11-15  1:00       ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-14 23:43   ` boyd, rounin [this message]
     [not found] ` <20031116013757.GO834@cassie.foobarbaz.net>
2003-11-18 12:40   ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-18 14:08     ` Russ Cox
2003-11-18 15:27       ` Charles Forsyth
2003-11-18 22:35       ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-18 23:10         ` jmk
2003-11-18 23:18           ` mirtchov
2003-11-18 23:30           ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-18 23:59             ` Geoff Collyer
2003-11-19  0:35               ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-19  1:12                 ` okamoto
2003-11-19  4:51                 ` Dan Cross
2003-11-19  5:59                   ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-19  0:03             ` jmk
2003-11-19  0:20               ` Charles Forsyth
2003-11-20  6:04               ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-20  9:26                 ` C H Forsyth
2003-11-20 10:14                   ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-11-18 15:36     ` SPAM: " jmk

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