Re: [9fans] Corrupted file entry on QEMU - how to recover?

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

Then where are the nodes stored?

On Dec 17, 2007, at 2:24 PM, john@csplan9.rit.edu wrote:

> On Sun Dec 16 20:58:30 EST pietro10@mac.com wrote:
>> I have no venti partition, and venti/conf asks for one called
>> v.arenas. The reason was that the default configuration of the
>> installer only gave fossil 700MB and venti/arenas 3GB. I wasn't sure
>> that would be sufficient for my files :-)
>>
>
> Unless I completely misunderstand the way venti and fossil work, that
> would be quite sufficient unless you plan on creating more than
> about 700 MB of files in a day. After you install, fossil will  
> flush everything
> to venti, which *should* get you a pretty much empty fossil  
> partition--
> it's just a cache, remember. Your files will then be moved from fossil
> to venti every night thereafter. Since venti practices block  
> compression,
> it shouldn't be much of a problem to have venti... unless you copy in
> a whole bunch of mp3 files and then decide you don't want them *after*
> venti has written them.
> I used a fossil+venti system to store a bunch of music at one  
> point. I would
> fill up the fossil buffer with mp3s, then force a sync to venti,  
> then re-fill
> the fossil buffer, repeating until I had transferred everything and  
> written
> it to venti.
> If the things I've said here are wrong or don't make sense, let me  
> know.
>
> John
>