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From: Richard Uhtenwoldt <ru@river.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] lucio-
Date: Mon,  4 Mar 2002 13:14:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16hzmo-0000WS-00@po> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a1jqcp$mhs$1@spacebar.ucc.usyd.edu.au>

I'm responding to an old message.

on Jan 10, Bruce Janson wrote:

>Two of the limitations of dump are its coarse granularity and its
>arbitrary timing.  To eliminate these one could extend dump by
>allowing anybody to force (and annotate) a dump snapshot.

I believe that the current implementation of dump snapshotting
bogs down the fileserver so it would be annoying to run it
when people are doing work and that is why dump snapshotting
runs in the wee hours at Bell Labs.

(Of course, it could be redone if that was deemed valuable.)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-04 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-09  5:08 Russ Cox
2002-01-09  5:32 ` Lucio De Re
2002-01-09  6:01   ` Lucio De Re
2002-01-10 10:37   ` Bruce Janson
2002-01-10 12:07     ` Source version control (Was: [9fans] lucio-) Lucio De Re
2002-03-04 21:14     ` Richard Uhtenwoldt [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-05  1:42 [9fans] lucio- Russ Cox
2002-03-05  0:10 geoff
2002-03-05 17:07 ` Dan Cross
2002-03-11 10:05 ` Luis Fernandes
2002-01-10 15:31 rob pike
2002-01-10 11:07 forsyth
2002-01-10  1:36 okamoto
2002-01-10 13:52 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-09  7:06 okamoto
2002-01-09  5:41 geoff
2002-01-09  3:06 Russ Cox
2002-01-09  4:49 ` Lucio De Re
2002-01-09  4:52 ` Lucio De Re
2002-01-09 10:58   ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-09 16:01   ` Aharon Robbins
2002-01-09  1:04 okamoto
2002-01-08 18:01 Russ Cox

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