From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 09:09:39 -0700 From: David Romano To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20120517160939.GC9038@paravel.rurs.us> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: Re: [9fans] Thinkpad T61 Installation Experience Topicbox-Message-UUID: 91c24d74-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 cinap_lenrek@gmx.de wrote on Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:37:09AM MST: > you can do without a "other" fs. we added support for +t flags like > there is in fossil, so you can just mark directories and files > as temporary in the "main" filesystem so they dont get dumped > to worm. (this works recursively on directories) > > but requires a bigger fscache partition if you have lots of stuff > flagged temporary. and you loose all your +t flagged data when > recovering the filesystem from the last archival snapshot (dump). Considering what you wrote, I don't see any substantial benefit of supporting +t flags in the "main" filesystem when you have "other" at your disposal. Has that discussion already taken place on IRC or another mailing list? Why is +t preferable to having an "other" filesystem? Is it merely so that you don't have to be concerned with guessing an appropriate size for the "other" fileystem? -- David Romano .:. unobe@cpan.org