> 2. Have a small file of, say, 32KByte. Use it as wrap-around tape, e.g. we > start writing at the beginning of the file if we reach the end. Combined with > 1. we will not have to update the filesystem each time we write something and > the writes are very localized. This way even the hard disk cache will help us > to avoid a slow down. This cache is not influenced by the system crashing. it's a good idea.... for that matter, since we know the ordering of tests, even writing the last test that was conducted successfully might be enough info to recover, right? what am i missing? randolph -- Debian Developer <tausq@debian.org> http://www.TauSq.org/
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