From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <72A04C0E-4AF2-4EBC-B697-050A610B19BF@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Pietro Gagliardi Subject: Re: [9fans] Corrupted file entry on QEMU - how to recover? Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:10:54 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1be090ce-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 >