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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:12:28 +1000
From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] keeping an eye on disk use
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i wish i knew. i'm not gonna read the source to find out.
look in the archives for my woe when fossil - which i
thought was a cache - filled up and the machine was
completely unuseable without a lot of work.

not a cache, a working area.  too many kids, not enough
icecreams.  use another fs if you want to process
significant data.

brucee

On 10/21/06, John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/20/06, John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/20/06, Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org> wrote:
> > > Are you running that as the host owner?
> > >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Ah, much better. Thanks. Three percent used :-)
> >
> > On a similar topic, I want to convert this 20 GB disk to Venti and use
> > another 6GB drive I've got for fossil/swap/9fat. How can I get the
> > data from my current fossil disk to the 6GB? I assume that once I get
> > my system running on the 6GB, I can follow the wiki instructions to
> > add the 20GB as Venti.
> >
> >
> > John
>
> I've kind of come to the realization that I'm not fully certain how
> Fossil works. It *seems*, based on things I've read, that Fossil
> simply stores new files until they can be written to Venti, at which
> point the file is simply replaced by a pointer to the appropriate data
> in Venti. Is this right? Does that mean that with my 6 GB fossil disk
> and 20 GB Venti, I can actually store a lot more than 6 GB of data
> (provided I allow stuff to write to Venti periodically)?
> I'd appreciate if someone could clear this up for me.
> Thanks
>
> John Floren
> --
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>