> I wasn't thinking "I would need a big venti", more "I only need a small > fossil". My train of thought was because the fossil size is used to store > the unarchived files after which they can be gotten from venti that it > might be practical to only have the fossil be big enough to store the > maximal size of files that will change per day(snapshot interval). > > I would struggle to change 16GB a day unless I'm backing up a VM so 64 > seemed like it should accommodate any changes and still leave room for lots > of often used files to be kept there (if fossil thinks like that).
why bother optimizing this? fossil is going to be <1% of the disk even if you make it silly huge. - erik
