Re: [9fans] Fossil disk usage over 100%?

[Kurt H Maier <khm-9@intma.in>]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 03:41:39PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> which is to say that the thesis that fossil sucks is refuted.
>
> - erik

*now* I know what you guys meant by 'snarky comments.'

"Just the place for some Snark!" the 9fan cried,
As he landed his Apples with care;
Supporting each mac on the top of the tide
By a lanyard tied off to his Air.

"Just the place for some Snark! I have said it twice:
That alone should encourage the macs.
Just the place for some Snark!  I have said it thrice:
What I tell you three times is true."

The mac was complete: it included a bootes--
An owner of hardware and hosts--
A mail program, brought to arrange their disputes--
And a Hivemind, to value their words.

A kernel-patch-maker, whose skill was immense,
Might perhaps have won more than his share--
But a Repo, engaged at enormous expense,
Had the whole of their code in his care.

There was also Safari, that paged out the stack,
Or would sit making .gifs in the bow,
And had often (the Bellman said) saved them from wreck,
Though none of the Apples knew how.

There was one who was famed for the number of things
He forgot when he entered the disk:
His email, his logs, all his photos and songs,
And the superblocks saved against risk.

He had forty-two journals, all carefully packed,
With his name painted clearly on each:
But, since he omitted to mention the fact,
The were all left behind on the beach.

The loss of his blocks hardly mattered, because
He had seven RAID drives when he came,
With three Dell PERC cards -- but the worst of it was,
He had wholly forgotten his name.

He would answer to "Hi!" or to any loud cry,
Such as "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!"
To "What-you-may-call-um!" or "What-was-his-name!"
But especially "Thing-um-a-jig!"

While, for those who preferred a more forcible word,
He had different names to tout:
His intimate friends called him "hjfs: ends"
And his enemies just patched him out.

"His form is ungainly -- his intellect small"
(So the 9fan would often remark)
"But his snapshot is perfect! And that, after all,
Is the thing that one needs with a Snark."

He would joke with fshalts, returning their strike
With an impudent park of the head:
And he once went a-walk, volt-in-volt, with a spike
"Just to keep up its spirits" he said.

He came as a filestore: but owned, when too late --
And it drove the poor 9fan half-mad --
He could only store cat pics (for which, I may state,
No tojpeg code was to be had.)

The last of the macs needs especial remark,
Though he looked an incredible dunce:
He had just one idea -- but that one being "Snark"
The good 9fan engaged him at once.

He came as a venti: but gravely declared
When the system was online a week,
He could only store data.  The 9fan looked scared,
And was almost too frightened to seek(2).

But at length he explained in a tremulous tone,
There were precious few data on board;
And that was some tame stuff he had on his own
Whose deletion was to be deplored.

The data, who happened to hear the remark,
Protested with tears in its eyes,
That not even the rapture of hunting the Snark
Could atone for that dismal suprise!

It strongly advised that the venti should be
Conveyed in a separate disk:
But the 9fan declared that would never agree
With the plans he had made without fsck.

File storage was always a difficult art,
Though with only one disk and one Nix:
And he feared he must really decline, for his part,
Operating another betwixt.

The data's best course was no doubt to procure
A second-hand shutdown-proof coat --
So the filestore advised it -- and next to insure
Its use within Office or Notes:

This the Repo suggested, and offered for use
On moderate terms or for sale,
Two excellent killfiles: one anti-abuse
And one for protection from mail.

Yet still ever after that sorrowful day,
Whenever the venti was by,
The data kept looking the opposite way,
And appeventiSend vtWrite block 0xa failed: not connected to venti server