Anyone run Venti on flash or eeprom before?  It might be more suitable there
than on giant disks.
Dave

On 8/14/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
>
> > > does anyone have an example of a case where compression and uniquing
> are required?
> >
> > the compression is nice to have of course but the uniqing is very
> > neat. I have always though of it as plan9's answer to CSV et al.
> >
> > When you do a release of a software package you copy the files to
> > a new directory with the name of the release (the equivilent of
> > tagging your release in CVS) - and continue working. this tne takes
> > up the space for the directory entries and all releases are always
> > available. branching is trivial (dircp) only a pretty merge tool
> > is missing - I have diff3 from edition7 in my contrib area
> > but some sort of interactive differencting GUI tool would be very
> > hand somtimes.
> >
> > have I drifted off topic I wonder...
>
> seems on topic to me.
>
> the extra disk space used for a copy of source should be tiny.
> if you have a 500GB disk (< $150 at newegg), making a several of extra
> copies of /sys/src would cost you 1/1000th of your disk space if not
> uniqued.
>
> the old way to do versioning is to remember the date of the release
> and use history.  this also doesn't use any disk space, except for the
> deltas.
>
> - erik
>