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Re: AFS a piece of crap? no

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From: Chris Hewitt
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 00:00
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On Mon, 27 May 96, Mike Williams wrote:

> An undelete feature is nice, but it's certainly not something you should expect 
> from your file system.  Actually, it could be a disadvantage if you can't turn 
> it off.  What happens with AFS if the reason you're deleting stuff is to make 
> room on a crowded hard drive?  Does it just move to deldir so you don't gain 
> any space?  I don't relish the idea of having to delete everything twice to 
> recover the space on my hard drive.

Actually it only keeps in .deldir what it can, ie if the space is required by a
'real' file it gets it. Or at least that's what FLD told me :-)

Chris

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Subject: Re: AFS a piece of crap? no
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