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Re:What if mass storage were free? – George Copeland (1980) ... by deobald on Friday December 01, 2023 @09:10PM (#38495180)
While acknowledging you're only addressing the Copeland paper (and not Endatabas, where the OP found it), here's the Endatabas solution to this problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDHGjUMqPvI&t=129s

Apologies for the hijack. :)

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Re:What if mass storage were free? – George Copeland (1980) ... by Dylan16807 on Saturday December 02, 2023 @06:11PM (#38503159)
> here's the Endatabas solution to this problem:

Where?

The narrator says "Endb supports ERASE. Mustard is gone." and then moves on to another topic entirely.

This is right after they said the data was immutable.

What does ERASE actually do? Does it wipe the old bytes? Does it add a tombstone that could be bypassed?

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