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Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 22:22:45 -0400
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil question
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> does fossil leak?

i think it leaks superblocks but not many and not often.

> if i run "fossil/flchk -f" i get thousands of
> bfrees which all belong to long gone epochs.
> i'm very reluctant to do an update as fossil
> is the root filesystem and if i screw it up
> i'm screwed - i'm also reluctant to do a few
> thousand bfrees.

do they have reasonable close numbers?

> PS "epoch" seems to always show more than a day's
> snaps, sometimes a few days.  what's that all about?

the cleanup happens once a day, so you might see
two days worth; you shouldn't see three.

russ