From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:49:58 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: <140e7ec30902112157u6926adcege0dbecc85c2ce3a3@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] source browsing via http is back Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9ee4a220-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:28 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > >> > what extra work would that be, > >> > >> that it pulls files in their entirety (IOW: cp /n/sources/... /) > > > > i would be very suprised if a single copy of sources had many shared > > blocks. > > He doesn't want a single copy though, he is hoping to mirror > sourcesdump. That's 2255 almost-copies of sources. Yes, there will be > changes in each snapshot, but how often does something like > /extra/python.iso.bz2 change? exactly. the point i was trying to make, and evidently was being too coy about, is that 330 odd gb wouldn't be as useful a number as the sum of the sizes of all the new/changed files from all the dump days. this would be a useful comparison because this would give a measure of how much space is saved with venti over the straightforward algorithm of copying the changed blocks, as ken's fileserver does. - erik