Re: [9fans] Looks like I'll be able to drop venti from my mac...

[Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>]

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There are a couple of things I do expect to see in Apple's version  
that will make life easier for me.
I had to wrap my snapshot taking in a pile of scripts to track the  
hash of the previous snapshots of the various trees I choose to back  
up, or else performance went completely to hell.  As is, a snapshot  
is way expensive - I don't do them as often as I'd like.  Ideally my  
script would be clever enough to cache file modification times and  
only re-snap the changes, but that way lies madness and a loss of the  
fire-and-forget advantage Venti has.  Not to mention how painful it  
is to read my past snapshots through 9P without a decent browser...
I'm pretty sure apple's version won't need these kinds of voodoo from  
the user - the UI is likely to be pretty and functional.

On 9-Aug-06, at 2:20 PM, John Floren wrote:

> On 8/9/06, Benn Newman <newmanbe@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>> Paul Lalonde said:
>> > Essentially the same feature set.  Anyone know what the tech is
>> > behind this?
>> Ha! You are talking about Apple. What do you expect? ;)
>> --
>> Benn Newman
>>
> Well, Xerox never had this... hmm. I guess Apple has had to borrow
> from other places too. Guesses on how long it will be before Windows
> has this?
> Cheers
>
> John
> -- 
> "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" -- Shakespeare,  
> Henry VI

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