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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: 9Gb HD questions - FreeBSD 2.0.5
To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 20:43:47 -0700 (MST)
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> > > About 20 minutes or so..
> > 
> > For the empty file system? :)
> 
>     Jordan did say it was for a news spool.... when was the last time
> you saw a news spool disk even close to being empty?  ;-)

A cannonical soloution is probably to have the update mark the disk
clean and flush the buffers after a certain amount of time idle, with
it being unmarked on activity.

This also fits with the idea of APM shutdown/restore.

Not something to hack in overnight, but not a horribly big job, either.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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