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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat,  5 Aug 2006 23:27:08 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Fs64 file server, partition boundaries out of range
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you're explination made perfect sense to me.  where is the bitmap consulted?

- erik

On Sat Aug  5 18:22:14 CDT 2006, geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> I didn't explain that as clearly as I could have: all blocks on the
> disk underlying a fake worm can be read from the disk device, but only
> already-written blocks can be read via the fake-worm device, and it's
> the fake worm's allocation bitmap that determines which blocks have
> been written.  This in turn emulates the real worm hardware, which
> only permits reading written blocks.
>