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Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 20:44:22 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Ph. Marek wrote:

> If a file's data has been changed, it suffices to update the inode and the
> of free blocks bitmap (fbb).
> But updating them in one go is not possible

You seem to have missed some fundamental understanding of
exactly how phase tree works; the wohle point of phase
tree is to make atomic updates like this possible!

Rik
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