Re: [9fans] Using cwfs

[Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>]

> if you are simply left with a directory that's been
> deleted.  maybe something else is going on?

Perhaps. The harddisk is a FreeAgent Seagate,
connected via USB. It used to go into sleep mode
every 15 minutes and I would often have to restart
cwfs - this is probably cause for a lot of damage.

It's no longer an issue, as I recently got access to
a Windows computer with the proper software to
disable this.

> the cache is mostly orthoganal to this.  except
> that between dumps, modifications are in the cache,
> though they have actually worm addresses.  this is
> why some blocks are usually lost on each dump.
> since the maximum allocated address on the worm
> is never adjusted down to account for deletions.
>
> so the only way to move a file that only exists in
> the dump to the active fs is to copy it.

Makes sense. But does this also mean that when
time comes for a dump, the data will be duplicated
in the WORM? Viz., I'll have two copies of the same
file, in different dumps?


Thanks,
ak