"Steve Simon" writes:
> Even fossil can be grown though you will need a new bigger
> partition or grow the existing one using fs(3), this can then
> be refreshed from a venti snapshot.
Quid pro quo: IIRC, if you do this (using flfmt), you will retain venti
archives of the fossil filesystem, but
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 01:33:46PM +, Steve Simon wrote:
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> Don't forget you can always grow your venti by adding more arenas
> partitions. More indexes can be added also - rebuilt from your
> existing arena partitions).
>
I finally read the paper about fossil/venti so it's a little mo
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 08:45:41AM -0600, Jack Norton wrote:
>
> 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
On 1/4/2012 2:58 AM, Vivien MOREAU wrote:
Hello Thierry,
tlaro...@polynum.com writes:
My date is organized, at least, in three distinct chunks:
1) The data that I use read-only (written by someone else and that can
be retrieved at will). So are the sources for the OSes etc., that I may
backup
I split my disk up into fossil, venti, and other
(as well as a few other small partitions like nvram and fs).
My 'other' filesystem is a fossil partition but it is never
dumped to venti as it only holds files which are temporary or
which are already backed up elsewhere - e.g. CDROM ISO images.
Do
Hello Vivien,
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 09:58:36AM +0100, Vivien MOREAU wrote:
> Hello Thierry,
>
> tlaro...@polynum.com writes:
> > [snipped]
> >
> > Do I get the things approximately correct above?
>
> You don't need to have several fossil on the disk. Just use chmod +t
> /usr/tlaronde/rodata i
Hello Thierry,
tlaro...@polynum.com writes:
> My date is organized, at least, in three distinct chunks:
>
> 1) The data that I use read-only (written by someone else and that can
> be retrieved at will). So are the sources for the OSes etc., that I may
> backup (on optical disks) from time to tim
