From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 14:40:32 +0100 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20120105134032.GA1313@polynum.com> References: <20120105124852.GA940@polynum.com> <881b3fc57a30c0db60da795285dc1982@chula.quanstro.net> <20120105132034.GA1461@polynum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Re: [9fans] venti and "contrib": RFC Topicbox-Message-UUID: 543f8570-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 08:27:50AM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > Secondly, I still use optical definitive storage from time to time > > (disks go in a vault)... with KerGIS and others, and kerTeX, this still > > fit 3 times on a CDROM. So... > > if you are using venti, there is no reason to re-archive closed arenas. > (and there's no a priori reason that your optical backup must include > history.) Because I use CVS (not on Plan9), and I backup my CVS. So, sources with history. I do not consider CDROM to be eternal. So there is a small number kept, and the older is destroyed when the new one is burnt. -- Thierry Laronde http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C