Re: [9fans] Fossil+Venti system memory requirements to be aware of?

[Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>]

i agree absolutely with steve here, expanding venture arena by arena is easy, the ventibackup scripts show you how. even easier is to add arenas on a different disk partition to the same venti.

personally i wouldn't keep music or videos in venti. they don't compress well using the arithmetic techniques in venti and the de duplication is unlikely to be a win either. just put them on a separate mirrored partition.

i wrote a doc called venti rescue which details replacing disks and rebuilding your venti. it may be of help.

-Steve


> On 20 Oct 2016, at 19:41, Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 1:15 PM,  <cigar562hfsp952fans@icebubble.org> wrote:
>> Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Sizing venti is also simple.
>> 
>> I disagree with this.  The best way to configure venti depends largely
>> on how you plan to use it.  I have multiple venti servers configured for
>> different uses.  For example, I keep my DVD images on a different venti
>> server than I do for smaller, more frequently-used files such as mail.
> 
> see venti(8); there's plenty of advice on configuring your store with
> rough estimations for an initial conf file. Once you decide your
> geometry, it's trivial to extend the number of arenas in the store,
> just remember to reindex.
> 
>> I don't know that to be true.  If the source and destination volumes are
>> the same size, yes, it's easy to just dd the arenas.  But if you're
>> relocating to a smaller/larger partition, what would be an easy way to
>> do that?
> 
> see venti-backup(8).