From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <7d3530220608091420x702ce0fcxd8ad69da7bdfb75a@mail.gmail.com> References: <35236.69.21.205.10.1155155005.squirrel@69.21.205.10> <7d3530220608091420x702ce0fcxd8ad69da7bdfb75a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <31863FC1-32C9-4CD4-93D7-2E0B504523FB@telus.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Paul Lalonde Subject: Re: [9fans] Looks like I'll be able to drop venti from my mac... Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:52:31 -0700 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9b3b0f68-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFE2lkfpJeHo/Fbu1wRAki+AJ9ddVmBqu79DbZSY9hN0iE13KH1PgCglNCe 6O3MHFSGxyk2VwAjSkCHnsU= =2zLj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----