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I use a ventiless fossil on my notebook.  However, I have a whole
company worth of file servers etc to backup to.
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>> For a notebook or Plan 9 at home, is it possible to use fossil
>> without venbti instead of kfs?
>> I can't find any good reason to use venti for those purposes.
>> Is there any?
>
> the dump takes up much less space if you store it on venti.
> using venti also makes backup easier.

I doubt how eagerly we need dump function for such as personal
use by notebook or at home task.
If we can use fossil instead of kfs, we can use secure and long name
capable file system for personal use.    Is it ridicurous?

Kenji

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