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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Venti r/o directory
Date: Tue,  9 Feb 2010 14:53:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <437751e28b3db632b6cea684c49a8a0b@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B71B95B.8050707@maht0x0r.net>

> But when I unvac the resulting score with 9p9 [sic] on Debian it segfaults
> because 'My Documents' is dr-xr-x-- so unvac creates a read only
> directory and then tries to write into it.
>
[...]
>
> The only general purpose solution I can think of is two passes for unvac
> but that doesn't sound very nice.

wouldn't it suffice to set temporary permissions of 777 and fixup
when leavinging that directory?

> btw. it is a great way to backup. < 1% of CPU while running, which is
> doubly fortunate because vacput doesn't have an option to compare
> against previous backups

so you're completely disk bound?  if disk activity on the windows
box is also low, your venti machine must be suffering.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-09 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-09 19:36 maht
2010-02-09 19:53 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-02-09 20:08   ` maht
2010-02-10 12:55     ` maht

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