At 15:31 2000-12-15 +0100, you wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 08:14:08AM -0500, Drew Northup wrote:
>
> > How big are your disk image files? 640KB? Mine is 504MB!!! This IS NOT A
> > GOOD SOLUTION!!!
>
>Who fucking cares ? I have 40GB free disk space which cry to be filled ? ;-)
>And my image is ~900MB.
900MB? How did you get around the 1024/16/63 504MB limit? :-P
> > Remember two things: Keep It Simple Stupid (why many of my Data Structures
> > Programs just didn't work)
> > and
> > whatever is the fastest, the smallest (least memory used--of any kind), and
> > the simplest--all at once--is the best code.
>
>Well, I can think of nothing which will work in more cases. I guess
>we can avoid copying the disk image if the user promises not to
>touch it :-) OTOH, copying it would always work, no matter what
>the user does. So this qualifies for me as "more simple".
Can't we just save the file modification date, and only restore if it
wasn't changed?
Of course, the user could touch the file in which case it wouldn't work,
but who is stupid enough to do that?
EL
