From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Burton Samograd To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 11:45:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [9fans] Thinkpad T61 Installation Experience Topicbox-Message-UUID: 91860d8c-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 The defaults in my 9front installation were other, fscache and fsworm. Doe= s fscache =3D=3D main and fsworm =3D=3D dump? -----Original Message----- 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 To: 9fans@9fans.net Subject: Re: [9fans] Thinkpad T61 Installation Experience no. your user data is not in "other" filesystem. basicly there are 3 filesy= stems that cwfs exports after 9front installation. "main", "dump" and "other". "main" is the primary file system that gets arc= hived 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 i= s 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 t= emporary. and you loose all your +t flagged data when recovering the filesy= stem from the last archival snapshot (dump). -- cinap This e-mail, including accompanying communications and attachments, is stri= ctly confidential and only for the intended recipient. Any retention, use o= r disclosure not expressly authorised by Markit is prohibited. This email i= s subject to all waivers and other terms at the following link: http://www.= markit.com/en/about/legal/email-disclaimer.page Please visit http://www.markit.com/en/about/contact/contact-us.page? for co= ntact information on our offices worldwide.