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Date: Wed,  7 Dec 2005 16:49:22 -0500
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil woe
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On Wed Dec  7 16:15:27 EST 2005, bruce.ellis@gmail.com wrote:
> this misses the point.  a cache must cope with an "I'm full"
> condition otherwise it can and will fail.  i'd much rather a
> long delay on a file-op when fossil does a "I'm nearly full"
> snap than a few days to rescue a smashed system.
> 
> brucee

     FOSSIL(4)                                               FOSSIL(4)
	 ...
     BUGS
          It is likely that the disk format (but not the Venti format)
          will change in the future, to make the disk a full cache
          rather than just a write buffer.  Changing to the new format
          will require reformatting the disk as in the example above,
          but note that this will preserve most of the file system
          (all but /snapshot) with little effort.