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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:13:48 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology
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> > > Not in the sense that you can purge specific files you don't
> > > want and continue using the same venti. But you can do what a
> > > copying garbage collector does -- it copies all the data
> > > *reachable* from the data `roots' (a set of objects you know
> > > you want). What is left behind is considered garbage and can
> > > be recycled.
> >
> > that's wrong.  there is no such function.
>
> Huh?  I am just described what copying garbage collection
> does.  If you mean you can't do something similar with venti,
> think about it!

what i understood the op to mean was that venti arenas are
garbage collectable.  this is not true.  arenas are write once,
so it follows they must be impossible to garbage collect.

venti is the block motel.  blocks check in, but they never check out.

- erik