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From: geoff@collyer.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] truncation via wstat on ken's fs
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 01:24:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <33b92a9c2d6b8da64f55409b1d7c1e76@collyer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5db02d8d4202afa28a05b7b943fbd553@terzarima.net>

I was just looking at that very comment.

It shouldn't matter for WORMs, since blocks are never reused.  I
wonder how much it matters for other file systems, given that one
would expect to be serving from RAM cache most of the time.  I note
that fossil seems to just free the blocks in forward order.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-18  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-17 11:05 geoff
2004-10-17 11:18 ` Brantley Coile
2004-10-17 17:01 ` Russ Cox
2004-10-18  0:43   ` geoff
2004-10-18  8:03     ` Charles Forsyth
2004-10-18  8:24       ` geoff [this message]
2004-10-18  8:36         ` Charles Forsyth
2004-10-18  8:38           ` geoff
2004-10-17 17:35 ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-17 13:19 Aharon Robbins

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