From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 17:39:07 +0100 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20120105163907.GA761@polynum.com> References: <20120105124852.GA940@polynum.com> <20120105144810.182add7c@wks-ddc.exosec.local> <20120105151518.GB435@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: 551facf4-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 10:44:18AM -0500, Russ Cox wrote: > > The default is that you have so little data in comparison to a > modern disk that there is no good reason not to save full > snapshots. As Erik and others have pointed out, if you do > find reason to exclude certain trees from the snapshots, you > can use chmod +t. The system is working as intended. Quoting ``Installing the Plan9 Distribution'': You need an x86-based PC with 32MB of RAM, a supported video card, and a hard disk with at least 300MB of unpartitionned space and a free primary partition slot. Yes, this is from the printed edition of Plan9 Programmer's Manual, 3rd Edition. But I don't see why "caveats" will hurt a new comer, who is probably not devoting an entire new disk to a system he doesn't know yet and wants to try, but making Plan9 some place on a disk populated with other data. And giving a hint about the archival features will not hurt either. -- Thierry Laronde http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C