From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
Cc: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] another project for those of you looking for one
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:43:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60509291643i7f848d85g382700bbd2c9ae64@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a0509291627h3853a874yc593eece1e99fc17@mail.gmail.com>
On 9/29/05, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > Why is it when I read about git I immediately think "venti"? Let's
> > just get Linus to switch to using v9fs and plan9ports venti. [sounds
> > scary]
>
> Git is SHA1-addressed, but that's where the similarity ends.
> Git works on entire files, not blocks, and it defines different
> metadata trees tailored to the job Linus is doing.
True, his tree structures help capture specific snapshots of the
tree's state. It just seems like you've got snapshootable, efficient
storage in venti already.
*shrug*
Dave
>
> Russ
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-29 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-26 17:00 Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-29 23:07 ` David Leimbach
2005-09-29 23:27 ` Russ Cox
2005-09-29 23:43 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2005-09-29 23:49 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-29 23:55 ` David Leimbach
2005-09-30 0:04 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-30 0:18 ` Rob Pike
2005-09-30 2:32 ` Ronald G Minnich
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