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...VM images get monstrous numbers of fragments if I don't use +C, I haven't yet seen a big performance penalty as a result when the host and guest are using Btrfs and the cache is set to unsafe. Now, you might say, that's crazy! It's called unsafe for a reason! Yes, but I've also viscously killed the VM while writes were happening and at most I lose a bit of data that was in flight, the guest fs is not corrupt at all, not even any complaints on the remount. I've got limited testing killing the host while the writes are happening, and there is more data loss due to delayed alloc...

...in 'security = domain' or 'security = server'. fail the request if the list is exhausted without a positive response. Question: Is the intended domain included in the request? If so, the design needs a bit more work. Question: How to prevent circular trust relations from causing a viscous cycle? Keep a list of outstanding forwarded requests and postpone action on duplicates until the original request times out? How long a time-out? Question: Is there a negative response that means 'user disabled' and what should be done if it is received? I can see failing such requests imm...

On 09/30/2020 05:40 AM, John Pierce wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 8:33 AM H <agents at meddatainc.com> wrote: > >> I have an old external harddisk, Toshiba 320 Gb, with a USB connector that >> I wanted to check for contents. It did not start up when connected and I >> could not hear the motor spinning. After leaving it in the freezer >> overnight the motor