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From: Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil+plan9: disk full revisited
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:05:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <24448.1164247536@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871wnw49bk.fsf@jorgito.magma.com.ni>

My whimsical suggestion is that writing a file larger than
fossil's write buffer should be like approaching the event
horizon of a black hole:  fossil could deliberately delay
responses to Twrite's (a) generally as space gets low, and
(b) specifically for people extending large files.

Dave Eckhardt


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-23  2:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-22  0:24 Georg Lehner
2006-11-22 11:23 ` Robert Raschke
2006-11-23  2:05 ` Dave Eckhardt [this message]
2006-11-29 21:10   ` Georg Lehner
2006-11-29 22:34     ` geoff

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