From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4D2F5B74.5070908@gmail.com> <4D2F6345.4020408@gmail.com> <87lj2ofl58.wl%john@profusion.lvoc.net> <4D2FCB0D.6010800@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:35:05 -0500 Message-ID: From: Jacob Todd To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0003255566125bda450499c6f5c9 Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology Topicbox-Message-UUID: 98281992-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --0003255566125bda450499c6f5c9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Jan 13, 2011 11:33 PM, "Duke Normandin" wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Duke Normandin wrote: > [snip] > > > > What is the minimum HDD capacity required to run an Auth/cpu/fs server > > > with Venti support? > > > > There's no hard and fast rule, really, but your Fossil partition needs > > to be at least big enough to hold the full distribution, and Venti > > should be big enough to hold everything you ever intend to put on the > > system. > > The Fossil partition being the partition where Plan9 will be running. > Venti should then be on another partition? > Yes. > > I wouldn't try it with less than a 20 GB disk, with say 2 GB for > > Fossil and the rest for Venti; unless you start storing music and > > video on there, that should give you plenty of room to work with. > > Ok! Can Venti be managed? As in, every so often, purge what isn't > needed? No. > -- > Duke > --0003255566125bda450499c6f5c9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

On Jan 13, 2011 11:33 PM, "Duke Normandin" <dukeofperl@ml1.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net> wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > > What is the minimum HDD capacity required to run an Auth/cpu/fs server
> > > with Venti support?
> >
> > There's no hard and fast rule, really, but your Fossil partition needs
> > to be at least big enough to hold the full distribution, and Venti
> > should be big enough to hold everything you ever intend to put on the
> > system.
>
> The Fossil partition being the partition where Plan9 will be running.
> Venti should then be on another partition?
>
Yes.
> > I wouldn't try it with less than a 20 GB disk, with say 2 GB for
> > Fossil and the rest for Venti; unless you start storing music and
> > video on there, that should give you plenty of room to work with.
>
> Ok! Can Venti be managed? As in, every so often, purge what isn't
> needed?
No.
> --
> Duke
>

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