From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:15:57 -0700 From: Duke Normandin To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <4D2FCB0D.6010800@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <4D2F5B74.5070908@gmail.com> <4D2F6345.4020408@gmail.com> <87lj2ofl58.wl%john@profusion.lvoc.net> <4D2FCB0D.6010800@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9800df1c-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote: > On 1/13/2011 7:42 PM, Duke Normandin wrote: > > > What is Venti again? > > Venti is the archival storage for Plan 9. Basically, new files and > changes to files get written to the Fossil file system. If Venti exists, > those changes get written to Venti; Venti never deletes anything and > works on a rather cool block-coalescing system. I highly recommend > reading the paper. I'll look for it. Sounds something like a RAID system to me. Or `vinum' on FreebSD. > On a system with a small disk, it's a good idea to go without Venti, > because of the space required. Fossil will then hold all your files, > meaning you don't get the daily snapshots, but you probably won't miss > those immediately--there's plenty of time to set up a system with a > bigger disk for Venti if you like Plan 9, or you could even add Venti > after the fact by sticking in another disk. What is the minimum HDD capacity required to run an Auth/cpu/fs server with Venti support? -- Duke