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If forsyth finds out where he had the code to grow I'm willing to
merge it into the ide patch for the fs kernel. At least, that
would let us grow before something better gets integrated (?)
into the official fs code.


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In article <20011105102049.E0C8B199B5@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
>you can concatenate the new device on the end, but if
>it's a pseudo-worm (f) you'll need to run a special kernel
>to initialise it first.  it can normally be initialised only by ream,
>but of course you don't want to do that.  i've probably got
>the code to do it somewhere since i've done it several times.

It'd be really nice if, instead of a special kernel, I could do
this from a standalone terminal with a small suite of tools designed
to manipulate file server disk images.  Particularly nice would be
the ability to do copies from one *worm volume to another (resizing
as needed), and the ability to delete old files from a pseudo-worm
(cf, to combat the undergraduate student who downloads 20 gigs of
porn or `WaReZ' or something and fills up a significant percentage
of the department's dump space).

	- Dan C.

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