HL>> And to clear things - meta data are updated also in a spirit of COW -
HL>> so metadata are written to new locations and then uber block is
HL>> atomically updated pointing to new meta data

Victor Latushkin wrote:
Well, to add to this, uber-blocks are also updated in COW fashion - there is a circular array of 128 uber-blocks, and new uber-block is written to the next to current slot.

Correct, I left it out because there's more detail involved with the uberblock.

We can deal with it when we get there.

Cheers,
Henk
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