From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] replica's _* files Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:02:20 -0700 From: geoff@collyer.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3da1a934-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 The reason to keep _ binaries around is that when you have multiple cpu servers and terminals, until you've rebooted (or shutdown) all your cpu servers and all your terminals, it's not safe, in general, to remove old binaries. A particularly good time to remove them is after restarting your file server.