From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120105151518.GB435@polynum.com> References: <20120105124852.GA940@polynum.com> <20120105144810.182add7c@wks-ddc.exosec.local> <20120105151518.GB435@polynum.com> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 10:44:18 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [9fans] venti and "contrib": RFC From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 550d388a-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:15 AM, 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