From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:19:37 -0800 From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" In-reply-to: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-id: <1234455577.4957.393.camel@goose.sun.com> References: Subject: Re: [9fans] source browsing via http is back Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9f15f898-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 07:49 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > exactly. the point i was trying to make, and evidently > was being too coy about, is that 330 odd gb wouldn't > be as useful a number as the sum of the sizes of all the > new/changed files from all the dump days. this would > be a useful comparison because this would give a > measure of how much space is saved with venti over > the straightforward algorithm of copying the changed > blocks, as ken's fileserver does. I'm confused. Since when did kenfs entered this conversation? I thought we were talking about how sources are managed today and how replica might make you waste some bandwidth (albeit, not all that much given how infrequently sources themselves change). Thanks, Roman.