[SunRescue] Tape drive

[Ken Hansen]

You wnat your DASD (hee-hee) to be nearly full at all times?

Every write for a new sector will (in effect) be preceeded by a process
determining what sector can be "released" for reuse?

That seems like a lot of, um, overhead...

You want a paging mechanism, not a file system.

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 1:05 AM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Tape drive


> Yeah, I've seen the Murray Hill setup.  Darn cool.
>
> Still doesn't do what I want though.  For instance, what if I save the
> file ten times in a minute.  Then, all those changes will be saved in
> ram, and only some time later when you are done editing does the change
> get saved to disk.
>
> What I want is for all the changes (or diffs of them) to be saved to disk.
> When the disk runs out of space, then start deleting the oldest diffs.

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