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Artem B. Bityuckiy dedekind at infradead.org
Tue Nov 16 10:09:32 EST 2004


On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 14:54 +0000, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
> > Yes. But imagine some file which is constant and is never changed. We 
> > create checkpoint for it and this checkpoint covers all the nodes. So, we 
> > will need to rewrite new checkpoint even for this file when its nodes are 
> > garbage collected... 
> 
> Yeah. In particular we'd nee to rewrite a new checkpoint when the block
> containing the old checkpoint was garbage-collected anyway.
> 
Hmm, do not get it why. Why we need this? We may just copu old checkpoint 
inact I believe. What happen If we do this? 

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Artem B. Bityuckiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.




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