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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
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Subject: Re: Filestreams
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To: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
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Richard Scobie wrote:
> Is my understanding of filestreams correct, in that files written to a 
> particular filestreams enabled directory are all allocated to 1 ag as 
> long as the filestreams timeout is not exceeded - which I believe is 30s?
> 
> In other words, if I copy 100 files into a directory, (cp -a 
> dir_containing_100_files dest_dir), wait 60 seconds and do (cp -a 
> dir_containing_100_different_files dest_dir), each directory and 
> contents in dest_dir will be stored in a single, different ag?
> 
> Also, would it be possible for the filestreams parameter to be added to 
> man pages/kernel docs?

Yes please :)  I was just noticing last week that there is no
documentation anywhere on this feature ....

-Eric

> Thanks,
> 
> Richard
> 
>