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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] venti arenas
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In-Reply-To: <6641ba56fe369dcba9498b55574627c9@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk>; from Richard Miller on Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:03:21AM +0100
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:10:55 +0200
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:03:21AM +0100, Richard Miller wrote:
>
> I think the last arena can only exceed arenasize by up to MinArenaSize
> bytes, which is 1 megabyte.  So you only have to set arenasize to
> 1MB less than the size of your backup media.

That doesn't make a great deal of sense.  If it is going to be limited
to an extra megabyte, why not keep it the exact size and throw the
remainder away?  What does the extra megabyte buy you?

++L