On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 01:41:30PM +0100, Richard Miller wrote:
> > it just becomes difficult
> > to do anything when no fossil blocks can be allocated
> 
> Thinking a bit further about this: intuitively one might expect to be
> able to reboot using a local file system which is completely full, and
> use du and ls to find big files and rm to delete them, without the need
> to allocate new blocks. Something in the way fossil works, makes this
> impossible at present. I wonder how much work it would be to investigate
> and fix?

I haven't studied how fossil works, so excuse this light chat.
Couldn't fossil have reserved blocks so when it starts and it's
full it can add those block and present the user to a recovery
session? Just a console session printing the last file modified?

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