From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] 9fs nvr file Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 02:26:43 -0400 From: geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: a0f93a9c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Right, I'd forgotten about noauth. Sure, send in the nvr patch and I'll look at it. I think the worm writer is trying to avoid monopolising the jukebox so that others can use it while the dump is running. Of course, if you have a large magnetic disk cache, this is unlikely to be an issue. If you're really lucky, your working set of data will fit in the file server's RAM.