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From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ole.hjalmar.kristensen@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] A potentially useful venti client
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 22:40:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHqDL__3aY03ivjB7jx0U3S6HD7teRFoiVB=SoUH1o_DverYTw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b1d7782d8c7b0a6afc09458d2ea38373@quintile.net>

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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:

/*
 <snip>
 *
 * 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 <steve@quintile.net> 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
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-12 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-12  9:33 Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2017-12-12 14:07 ` Steve Simon
2017-12-12 15:45   ` Steven Stallion
2017-12-12 16:11     ` Steve Simon
2017-12-12 16:23       ` Steven Stallion
2017-12-12 18:42     ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2017-12-12 19:16       ` Steven Stallion
2017-12-12 20:31         ` hiro
2017-12-12 23:36         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2017-12-13 10:17           ` Bakul Shah
2017-12-12 18:33   ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2017-12-12 19:53     ` Steve Simon
2017-12-12 20:03       ` Steve Simon
2017-12-12 20:07       ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2017-12-12 20:15     ` Steve Simon
2017-12-12 20:31       ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2017-12-12 20:38         ` Steve Simon
2017-12-12 21:40           ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen [this message]
2017-12-13  0:03             ` Steve Simon
2017-12-13  7:29               ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2017-12-13  9:44                 ` hiro
2017-12-13 11:00                 ` Steve Simon
2017-12-13 12:22                   ` Richard Miller
2017-12-13 14:13                     ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2017-12-13 13:37                   ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2017-12-12 21:02       ` Steven Stallion
2017-12-12 21:55         ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen

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