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From: Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:14:44 -0800
Message-Id: <20110114181444.4910A5C04@mail.bitblocks.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:54:04 EST erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>  wrote:
> > Not in the sense that you can purge specific files you don't
> > want and continue using the same venti. But you can do what a
> > copying garbage collector does -- it copies all the data
> > *reachable* from the data `roots' (a set of objects you know
> > you want). What is left behind is considered garbage and can
> > be recycled.
>
> that's wrong.  there is no such function.

Huh?  I am just described what copying garbage collection
does.  If you mean you can't do something similar with venti,
think about it!