On 16 November 2010 01:18, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> > i claim that a fs with this behavior would be broken. intro(5)
>> > seems to agree with this claim, unless i'm misreading.
>>
>> you're right - fossil is broken in this respect, as is exportfs
>> {cd /mnt/term/dev; ls -lq | sort} for a quick demo.
>
> so what's fossil's excuse?
i'd say it's a bug. fossil could easily reserve some number of bits
of the qid (say 20 bits) to make the files in the dump unique
while still allowing space for a sufficient number of live files.
that doesn't invalidate my original point though.
