From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <0c6a01c0e0db$66222fb0$e8b7c6d4@SOMA> From: "Boyd Roberts" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <20010519234657.4A6FC199C1@mail.cse.psu.edu> <3B073602.5B439C05@princeton.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Worm consumption (was: Re: tracking file modifiers) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 05:17:28 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a33b83d0-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 From: "Martin Harriss" > You might consider having a separate "scratch" file system not backed up by > a WORM. Anything transient you put in scratch. Anything precious you put > in the WORMed file system. that's such a bad idea. the current design gives you that for free if the mem/mag caches are large enough. why complicated it?