no. your user data is not in "other" filesystem. basicly there
are 3 filesystems that cwfs exports after 9front installation.
"main", "dump" and "other". "main" is the primary file system
that gets archived to the worm in daily intervals. the archival
snapshots (dump) appear as directories in the read only "dump"
filesystem. "main" is your root filesystem.

once stuff is written to the worm, it never gets deleted. you
can't discard dumps. they are there. forever.

the "other" filesystem is like a traditional unix filesystem.
its not dumped to worm and can be used kind of like scratch space.
we use it for the users /tmp directories.

you can do without a "other" fs. we added support for +t flags like
there is in fossil, so you can just mark directories and files
as temporary in the "main" filesystem so they dont get dumped
to worm. (this works recursively on directories)

but requires a bigger fscache partition if you have lots of stuff
flagged temporary. and you loose all your +t flagged data when
recovering the filesystem from the last archival snapshot (dump).

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cinap

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