Steven Stallion <sstall...@gmail.com> writes: > Sizing venti is also simple.
I disagree with this. The best way to configure venti depends largely on how you plan to use it. I have multiple venti servers configured for different uses. For example, I keep my DVD images on a different venti server than I do for smaller, more frequently-used files such as mail. Choosing a good arena size isn't trivial, either. If you ever plan to back-up your venti to optical media, 640 MiB is the ideal arena size. There is a lot of math behind that determination, but its implications can be summarized as follows: Whether you're burning to standard CD-Rs, extended CD-Rs, DVDs, DVD DL, Blu-ray, flash media, or to another HDD, the amount of "wasted" space will never exceed 5% of the media's total capacity. In other words, the archvie will always be a minimum of 95% space-efficient. (Caveat: when burning 640 MiB arenas to optical media, you may need to turn off Joliet/Rock Rigde extensions in order to make the ISO image fit.) > and it's also relatively trivial to move your data between stores. I don't know that to be true. If the source and destination volumes are the same size, yes, it's easy to just dd the arenas. But if you're relocating to a smaller/larger partition, what would be an easy way to do that?
