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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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David Masover wrote:

> Hans Reiser wrote:
> [...]
> | My solution is to tell Nate Diller that there is extensive literature on
> | it, that it isn't really the big problem it is made out to be, and leave
> | it to him to go read the literature and code it up after he finishes the
> | required tasks of our current darpa contract.;-)
>
> Can you point me to any such literature?  I'm just curious.
>
Look in every field of cs except filesystems and kernels.;-)  Databases, 
garbage collectors, etc.  Specific reference, no, I didn't collect them, 
sorry, but alexander the befs driver guy knows more than I about this.