From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 18:01:02 +0100 From: Heiko Dudzus To: Matthias Teege , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] venti crashes at startup Message-ID: <20041106170102.GA25993@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: <88a4775604110308014efb9764@mail.gmail.com> <5c1180c21894f3518a3902ca8a248c87@ipsoluciones.com> <88a47756041106070112f83985@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <88a47756041106070112f83985@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: fde16260-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Matthias Teege wrote: > Does this mean that after I copy a lot of big files to the plan9 > system I have to made a snapshot and then remove the files from fossil > and use the venti dump archive instead? Yes, to free space in fossil you need to do an archival snapshot (or to dismiss ephemeral ones). But no, you don't have to remove the file from the active filesystem. [1] Even the active filesystem is stored in venti (after snap -a), not only the archive/ tree. And of course, you can use the files in the active/ tree, you don't have to access them via the the archive/ tree (/n/dump). [1] BTW I realised that the removal of files from fossil does not free blocks immediately (as shown by df). However, they are freed after rebooting.