From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: weigelt@metux.de,
"Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] compressed filesystem
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:59:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10708100859n5eee599j9ba76480882ca34c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070810102046.GC18939@nibiru.local>
On 8/10/07, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> is there already an compressed (9p-)filesystem ?
> I'm doing regular rsync backups of several machines and like to
> save disk space. Performance is not important here.
What are you backing up? /home or /usr or /usr/local or ....
depending on what you are backing up, venti may be a huge win, as
duplicate blocks from different machines will result in only one block
being written.
What is "several" -- 2 or 3 or ...
What's the disk space issue? how much disk?
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-10 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-10 10:20 Enrico Weigelt
2007-08-10 10:25 ` Gabriel Diaz
2007-08-10 11:24 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-08-10 11:29 ` Gabriel Diaz
2007-08-10 14:03 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2007-08-10 10:41 ` Lucio De Re
2007-08-10 15:59 ` ron minnich [this message]
2007-12-23 12:05 [9fans] Compressed filesystem Enrico Weigelt
2007-12-23 13:14 ` Martin Neubauer
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