Re: Robust design for dosdis expire

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From: Philip McNab
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 00:00

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On Thursday, in article <829827671snz@wash.demon.co.uk>
     john@wash.demon.co.uk "John Washington" wrote:

JW> Same comments also apply to SnzPrune.  I've been a bit fearful
JW> ... I have the impression that
JW> space reporting is erratic on some combinations of [waves hands].
JW> Not sure if it's BC++ 3.1 run time, which OS, or what.
JW> More detail, anyone?

I've only heard of this prob on compressed drives: their ideas of
free space seem pretty random.  I believe you can see 4Mb free and then
run out of space adding a file of only a few hundred K.  I haven't
really tried this, because I religiously remove compression from
drive I find it on.

However, this optimistic reporting wouldn't make the check a bad
idea -- just less useful.  OTOH, pessimistic reporting might
make your checks gag even if there was enough space.

-- 
/ Philip McNab  // philip@siberia.demon.co.uk /

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