> Can somebody point me to a doc that a less than gifted mind, it > seems, can have a rough idea about what's going on, what space is > needed etc; is there a "garbage collector", that is for "-t" files and > dirs, once the file is deleted the blocks are freed and available, or > is there commands to run to reclaim space etc.?
Are you sure you disabled temporary snapshots? You can disable them by removing the line "snaptime", or just removing "-t", or setting "-t none" on that line, in fossil configuration. After disabling snapshots, have you removed the old snapshots with "snapclean 0" in fossilcons? In the default configuration, Fossil take temporary snapshots every hour and discard them after two days. How do you measure disk usage? Do you use "df" in fossilcons? > Side note: are there statics about the Plan9 distribution, to know > what is the best size of blocks? It seems that there is a lot of > small text files, so 8kb is perhaps too much. 8 KB seems like a good default to me. If you really want, you can specify a different block size with fossil/flfmt -b. Beware it cannot be superior to 57 KB on the current Plan 9 Venti. -- David du Colombier
