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From: mlelstv@comma.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux
Date: 18 Feb 1996 14:07:22 +0100
Organization: Regionalnetz Bonn eV
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In <4g57cj$gc3@pell.pell.chi.il.us> orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc) writes:
> But alternatively, one might wonder what's the point of writing
>the metadata unless you're also writing the data that the metadata
>is pointing to. [...] What's the
>difference whether it's written out by religious mandate or by the
>elevator passing by that floor.
It makes sure that the meta-data is written in the correct order.
--
Michael van Elst
Internet: mlelstv@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de
"A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."