holes in files

[Paul Chamberlain]

In article <11749 at alice.att.com> andrew at alice.att.com (Andrew Hume) writes:
>what scares me more are hyperintelligent
>disk drives that have built in data compression and might be able
>to take 20 blocks of some values but not be able to overwrite them
>because of different compression rates.

You also may eventually run into a problem with a WORM drive that
records new versions of blocks/files in a different place.  Then
again, you may also have to cope with a filesystem that looks almost
full but, when you fill it up, it gets bigger.  This will work until
you run out of space to grow the filesystem.  This is just a small
step from what AIX Version 3 currently does.

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