On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 08:45:41AM -0600, Jack Norton wrote:
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> I don't follow. Wouldn't read only data be perfect for venti? If I had
> a bunch of files that I would never need changed, I would just throw
> them directly into venti and be done with it. Couldn't you just push
> those files onto your venti srv, and access them through other methods
> besides fossil, bypassing this whole snapshot thing all together?
>
> I'm curious also how much ram this beast will have. Are you building a
> new machine?
The data that I don't need to archive with version is typically
externally provided data that is backed somewhere else (I do burn CD
from time to time even for these sources; but it's not critical).
That's not because _I_ treat them read-only that they don't change. So
fossil without venti is perfect for the job: perha snapshots for some
days (to be able to keep working in case of problem), but not a whole
archival.
And no: I don't install a new machine now. And the "beast" is an old
one (but is the best of the 3 I have now). Not due to lack of means, but
to lack of need: my programs are always written to need the minimal of
resources; they run without ado on this.
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