No need to be sorry. I've been looking at the code now and then, but haven't really got the hang of the difference between the vac and venti formats. On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 1:03 AM, Steve Simon wrote: > grief, sorry. > > what can i say, too old, too many kids. important stuff gets pushed out of > my brain (against my will) to make room for the lyrics of “Let it go”. > > > On 12 Dec 2017, at 21:40, Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen < > ole.hjalmar.kristensen@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, I know. I was thinking along the same lines a while ago, we even > discussed this here on this mailing list. I did some digging, and I found > this interesting comment in vac/file.c: > > /* > > * > * Fossil generates slightly different vac files, due to a now > * impossible-to-change bug, which contain a VtEntry > * for just one venti file, that itself contains the expected > * three directory entries. Sigh. > */ > VacFile* > _vacfileroot(VacFs *fs, VtFile *r) > > Ole-Hj > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 9:38 PM, Steve Simon wrote: > >> The best solution (imho) for what you want to do is the feature I never >> added. >> >> It would be great if you could vac up your linux fs and then just cut and >> past the >> vac score into fossil's console with a command like this: >> >> main import -v 7478923893289ef928932a9888c98b2333 /active/usr/ole/linux >> >> the alternative is a 1.6Tb fossil. >> >> -Steve >> >> >