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From: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil woe
Date: Tue,  6 Dec 2005 16:19:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4e6962a0512061419n7d5e1379k1d4d6ea8a970782b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a0512061407u2142d6d4t6549b52920e49191@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/6/05, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > cache.c:698:  * BUG: if the disk is full, should we flush some of it to Venti?
>
> Should we?  It's still not clear to me.  There are fossil console
> commands you could have typed to free up a little space
> and run an archive to venti.
>

I could see value in treating fossil as a cache.  We're looking at a
bunch of opportunities both for cacheing wide-area-storage (aka WAFS
style stuff) as well as local-disk cache of cluster storage (so you
can use your SAN/venti for backup, but still have quick local access
to the stuff you use the most).

        -eric


  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-06 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-06 21:02 Bruce Ellis
2005-12-06 22:07 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-06 22:19   ` Eric Van Hensbergen [this message]
2005-12-06 23:10   ` Bruce Ellis
2005-12-06 23:41     ` Russ Cox
2005-12-06 23:48       ` Bruce Ellis
2005-12-07 21:03       ` rog
2005-12-07 21:07         ` Steve Simon
2005-12-07 21:12         ` Bruce Ellis
2005-12-07 21:36           ` Russ Cox
2005-12-07 21:55             ` Bruce Ellis
2005-12-07 22:09               ` jmk
2005-12-07 22:41               ` Russ Cox
2005-12-07 21:49           ` jmk
2005-12-07  0:17 ` geoff

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