Re: [9fans] Sensible fossil+venti partitioning

["Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>]

> Aha, so fossil itself is not going to store anything but the difference
>  from the last venti snapshot?

Just to be clear, fossil stores the whole file if it differs from
venti not just a diff.

Venti however compresses data and factors out duplicate blocks
from all files so is very space efficent.

Fossil can also store its own snapshots but these are not compressed
and are usually reclaimed after a day or two. I use this to take a
fossil snapshot every 15 mins which is kept for 3 days and  venti snapshot
taken every night which is kept forever.

> How much hassle is it to mount venti on a different (secondary) partition?
> In that case, how much trouble have I to go through to simply set up venti
> on that partition and start using it, without having to re-install and
> -format everything?

Plan9 filesystems (on the PC) always live inside a primary DOS partition,
however this may then divided into several plan9 sub-partitions.

I don't believe you can put  plan9 partitions inside a secondary DOS
partition.

-Steve