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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.x release question
To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
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> > >personally I don't think persistance is of any importance
> > >but I hear the crowd yelling for their placebo's so I will do it some
> > >time.. but it tripples the complexity of the filesystem.
> > 
> > That's not true.  Layer it on top of a normal filesystem, use the
> > (empty) files down there to store the modes & ownerships.
>
> that's what I said..  it tripples the complexity..

Which is why persistance should be a non-default option.  8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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