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From: roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9p vs http
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:12:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinZxeFVW0WduLM9Yod3u=p92PrR3kX=aWD5fMRA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6fe792a6937e8e23ab679036748b5cd7@brasstown.quanstro.net>

On 16 November 2010 01:18, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> > i claim that a fs with this behavior would be broken.  intro(5)
>> > seems to agree with this claim, unless i'm misreading.
>>
>> you're right - fossil is broken in this respect, as is exportfs
>> {cd /mnt/term/dev; ls -lq | sort} for a quick demo.
>
> so what's fossil's excuse?

i'd say it's a bug. fossil could easily reserve some number of bits
of the qid (say 20 bits) to make the files in the dump unique
while still allowing space for a sufficient number of live files.

that doesn't invalidate my original point though.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-16 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-15  3:25 Sam Watkins
2010-11-15  4:20 ` John Floren
2010-11-15  4:26   ` Bruce Ellis
2010-11-15  5:16   ` Sam Watkins
2010-11-15  5:26     ` John Floren
2010-11-15 14:09     ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-11-15 14:15       ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-11-15 15:37         ` roger peppe
2010-11-15 16:45           ` C H Forsyth
2010-11-15 16:37             ` roger peppe
2010-11-15 16:48               ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-15 17:02                 ` roger peppe
2010-11-15 19:29                   ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-15 21:38                     ` roger peppe
2010-11-16  1:18                       ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-16 12:12                         ` roger peppe [this message]
2010-11-16 15:56                           ` Charles Forsyth
2010-11-16 16:04                             ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-16 16:32                               ` Charles Forsyth
2010-11-16 17:11                                 ` roger peppe
2010-11-15 15:44 ` David Leimbach
2010-11-15 15:55   ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-11-15 15:57     ` David Leimbach
2010-11-15 18:44 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-15 19:00   ` Dan Adkins
2010-11-15 22:18     ` Yaroslav
2010-11-15 22:34       ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-16 12:42     ` Russ Cox

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