Re: [9fans] Thinkpad T61 Installation Experience

[Burton Samograd <burton.samograd@markit.com>]

The defaults in my 9front installation were other, fscache and fsworm.  Does fscache == main and fsworm == dump?

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From: 9fans-bounces@9fans.net [mailto:9fans-bounces@9fans.net] On Behalf Of cinap_lenrek@gmx.de
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 9:37 AM
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Thinkpad T61 Installation Experience

no. your user data is not in "other" filesystem. basicly there are 3 filesystems that cwfs exports after 9front installation.
"main", "dump" and "other". "main" is the primary file system that gets archived to the worm in daily intervals. the archival snapshots (dump) appear as directories in the read only "dump"
filesystem. "main" is your root filesystem.

once stuff is written to the worm, it never gets deleted. you can't discard dumps. they are there. forever.

the "other" filesystem is like a traditional unix filesystem.
its not dumped to worm and can be used kind of like scratch space.
we use it for the users /tmp directories.

you can do without a "other" fs. we added support for +t flags like there is in fossil, so you can just mark directories and files as temporary in the "main" filesystem so they dont get dumped to worm. (this works recursively on directories)

but requires a bigger fscache partition if you have lots of stuff flagged temporary. and you loose all your +t flagged data when recovering the filesystem from the last archival snapshot (dump).

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cinap


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