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no, the epochs seem random (777, 1083, etc) - the current
epoch is 3442.  the first N blocks are all unreachable
and then it starts thinning out.

at 98% now, and clri of an epoch frees nothing.

Russ Cox wrote:

>>if i run "fossil/flchk -f" i get thousands of
>>bfrees which all belong to long gone epochs.
>>i'm very reluctant to do an update as fossil
>>is the root filesystem and if i screw it up
>>i'm screwed - i'm also reluctant to do a few
>>thousand bfrees.
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>
> do they have reasonable close numbers?