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From: "John Floren" <john@jfloren.net>
Date: Thu,  5 Jan 2012 10:07:08 -0800
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Subject: Re: [9fans] venti and "contrib": RFC
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> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:15 AM,  <tlaronde@polynum.com> wrote:
>> But perhaps the other users are smart enough to have understood all this
>> at installation time, but when I first installed Plan9, that was not for
>> the archival features. And I spent my time on Plan9 looking for the
>> distributed system, the namespace and so on, not on venti.
>>
>> The question is more about the defaults and/or the documentation.
>
> The default is that you have so little data in comparison to a
> modern disk that there is no good reason not to save full
> snapshots.  As Erik and others have pointed out, if you do
> find reason to exclude certain trees from the snapshots, you
> can use chmod +t.  The system is working as intended.
>
> Russ

For reference, I set up our current Plan 9 system about half a year
ago.  We have 3.8 TB of Venti storage total.  We have used 2.8 GB of
that, with basically no precautions taken to set anything +t; in
general, if it's around at 4 a.m., it's going into Venti.  I figure we
have roughly another 2,000 years of storage left at the current rate
:)



John