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Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 09:43:02 -0600 (MDT)
From: Siddharth Aggarwal <saggarwa@cs.utah.edu>
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Hi,

I was wondering why the limit for file system snapshots in BSD 5 has been 
set to 20. Is it a limitation due to the way this feature has been 
implemented? 

-Siddharth.