Re: free space inode generation (0) did not match free space cache generation

[Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>]

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On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 09:28:20PM +0000, Duncan wrote:
> Hugo Mills posted on Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:10:20 +0000 as excerpted:
> 
> > Did you mean "fated": intended, destined?
> 
> No, I meant "feted", altho I understand in Europe the first "e" would 
> likely have a carot-hat (fêted), but us US-ASCII folks don't have such a 
> thing easily available, so unless I copy/paste as I just did or use 
> charselect, "feted" without the carot it is.

   Either word works in the context -- I wasn't knocking you at all. I
was just testing the fit of the homophone (particularly since you'd
mentioned checking the spelling).

> Where I've seen "feted" used it tends to have a slightly future-
> predictive hint to it, something that's considered a "shoe-in" to use 

   Or a shoo-in... :)

> another term, but that isn't necessarily certain just yet.  Alternatively 
> or as well, it can mean something that many or the majority considers/
> celebrates as true, but that the author isn't necessarily taking a 
> particular position on at this time, perhaps as part of the traditional 
> journalist's neutral observer's perspective, saying "other people 
> celebrate it as", without personally 100% endorsing the same position.
> 
> Which fit my usage exactly.  I wanted to indicate that btrfs' position as 
> a successor to the ext3/4 throne is a widely held expectation, but that 
> while I agree with the general sentiment, it's with a "wait and see if/
> when these few details get fixed" attitude, because I don't think that a 
> btrfs that a knowledgeable admin must babysit in ordered to be sure it 
> doesn't run out of unallocated chunks, for example, is quite ready for 
> usage by "the masses", that is, to take the throne as crowned successor 
> to ext3/4 just yet.  And "feted" seemed the perfect word to express and 
> acknowledge that expectation, while at the same time conveying my slight 
> personal reservation.

   Ack. There's a number of sharp edges like this hanging around.
Those of us who've been here for a while don't tend to notice them (or
at least, deprioritise them), and it's a good thing to have people
saying "do I really have to do this crap?" occasionally.

   Hugo.

> In fact, until I looked up the word I had no idea the word could also be 
> used as a noun in addition to my usage as a verb, and used as a noun, 
> that it meant a feast, celebration or carnival.  I was familiar only with 
> the usage I demonstrated here, including the slight hint of third party 
> neutrality or wait-and-see reservation, which was in fact my reason for 
> choosing the term in the first place.
> 
> (This is of course one reason I so enjoy newsgroups and mailing lists.  
> One never knows what sort of entirely unpredicted but useful thing one 
> might learn from them, even in my own replies sometimes! =:^)


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