In <[email protected]>, on 11/12/2013
   at 10:34 PM, Kenneth Wilkerson <[email protected]> said:

>Actually, the algorithm performs well for read-often, write-rarely
>list because the active chain count does not change and therefore
>there are relatively infrequent re-drives.

What happens if the is an intervening add and also an intervening
remove, leaving no net change in the active chain count even though
the chain itself has changed?
 
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