[9fans] Fossil+Venti system memory requirements to be aware of?

2016-10-19 Thread James A. Robinson
Anyone able to tell me whether or not there are disk size limits I should beware of given a limited amount of system memory in a file server? What I'm wanting to try and do is get a hardware RAID1+0 enclosure and put in 20TB of disk (so 10TB of usable space). The board I am looking at will take

Re: [9fans] Fossil+Venti system memory requirements to be aware of?

2016-10-19 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
There are cheaper ways of disposing of 10TB of data. -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] Fossil+Venti system memory requirements to be aware of?

2016-10-19 Thread Steven Stallion
Hi Jim, It probably helps to break apart fossil and venti for the sake of the conversation. While you can use fossil as a standalone filesystem, it is effectively your write cache in this scenario since it will be backed by venti. Conventional wisdom is to size your main fossil fs based on how muc

Re: [9fans] Fossil+Venti system memory requirements to be aware of?

2016-10-19 Thread James A. Robinson
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:13 AM Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: > There are cheaper ways of disposing of 10TB of data. > If I decide the configuration is problematic I'm sure I can repurpose the device. Besides, the costs of spinning disk these days is amazingly low. As, I think, the developers for Pl