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Article #296Re: Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap)
From: Dan Bernstein
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 1991 19:13
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 1991 19:13
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In article <4702@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: > Er, what about the disc running out of I-nodes? Or going over quota? > Or a file server dropping dead? Well, yes, but those fall under the blanket of ``fatal errors'' which I mentioned at the top of the article. (Actually, going over quota shouldn't happen unless the system is strangely configured, but this is beside the point.) There's a push-pull here between ``don't catch errors you can't handle sensibly'' and ``don't dig your hole too deep.'' ---Dan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!cmcl2!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap) Message-ID: <29421:Feb419:13:5891@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 4 Feb 91 19:13:58 GMT References: <5883:Feb102:05:4991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <14994:Feb207:10:4791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <4702@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> Organization: IR Lines: 11