Re: [9fans] venti crashes at startup

[gdiaz@online.ie]

> 
> 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?
> 

if you haven't enough space in your fossil yes, but remember, that you cannot re-write files to venti, so the only operation you can do with venti-files is read or write a new one.

I think you shoul make a fossil enough big to work, and venti enough big to store the snaps from that big-fossil.

> I'm not sure if my current fossil/venti setup work as expected because
> I don't get any output from snap -a.
> 

snap -a should report vac number, used to generate the cache-fs if needed, (read 9fans archive to obtain more information about vac number and fossil recovery) and remember that snapshots takes a bit of time to complete, so be patient.

if you want to test, use history(1) or yesterday(1) commands, they should work.

gabi