Re: [9fans] A potentially useful venti client

[Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com>]

It depends - the 30GB I was mentioning before was from an older Ken's
fs that I imported with a modified cwfs. Rather than deal with all of
the history, I just took a snap with vac -s of the latest state of the
file system. I keep the original dump along with the cwfs binary in
case I ever need to dig into the dump (I haven't needed to in years).

The last venti store I needed to move around I was able to just use
rdarena/wrarena to reconstitute the fs on new hardware.

I think it comes down to what you want to preserve - life gets easier
if you don't need to worry about the dump. I don't think it would be
too tough to script the dump though. You probably would just need to
walk through each successive vac and archive it using vac -a. Probably
easier said than done though :-)

Steve

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> Interesting.
>
> how did you do the import? did you use vac -q and vac -d previous-score for each
> imported day to try and speed things up?
>
> Previously I imported stuff into venti by copying it into fossil first
> and then taking a snap. I always wanted a better solution, like being able
> to use vac and then installing the score into my main filesystem through
> a special fscons command. Sadly I never got around to it.
>
> -Steve
>