From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Question about fossil
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 18:22:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ce6a63b2511227ae6a36f78781c78b3@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140609215200.4CFC5B827@mail.bitblocks.com>
> Over the weekend I was playing with fossil and "copied" my
> fossil partition using its last score, swapped the two disks
> (under virtualbox) and rebooted. df now shows 1MB in use! So
> if you init fossil from the score of an existing installation,
> you can make do with a lot less space -- only depends on how
> much new stuff you create every day! Even there you can
> probably write a script that watches df and when it reaches
> some limit creates an archival snapshot or just snapshot
> every hour or so!
i am not sure i follow along. to me, 1g of disk space is a trival
amount, and in cases where space might be a bit tight, like on
a sd card, i would think reliablity would push one to put venti
on another media.
> This idea can drastically reduce new installation time.
> Someone (vsrinivas?) has created vtrc.c, a venti proxy, a
> variation of Russ's venti/ro.c. This can probably be enhanced
> so that if a block is not found in your local venti, it asks a
> public venti (and writes back that block to the local venti).
isn't this is trading a one-time small cost for a ongoing cost, and
a set of new problems. what if the public venti is out-of-sync, or
gone?
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-09 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-07 20:39 Riddler
2014-06-07 23:17 ` Steve Simon
2014-06-07 23:49 ` Riddler
2014-06-08 8:04 ` erik quanstrom
2014-06-09 20:25 ` Riddler
2014-06-08 8:30 ` Steve Simon
2014-06-08 8:39 ` erik quanstrom
2014-06-08 7:03 ` Bakul Shah
2014-06-08 7:56 ` erik quanstrom
2014-06-08 16:56 ` Bakul Shah
2014-06-08 17:06 ` erik quanstrom
2014-06-10 10:59 ` Nicolas Bercher
2014-06-09 20:21 ` Riddler
2014-06-09 21:12 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-06-09 21:25 ` erik quanstrom
2014-06-09 21:52 ` Bakul Shah
2014-06-09 22:22 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-06-09 22:36 ` Bakul Shah
2014-06-10 0:15 ` Brian L. Stuart
2014-06-10 4:24 ` Bakul Shah
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