Re: [9fans] fossil, without, venti?

[okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp]

>> on my 20 GB disk, I have 6GB for each arena, 5GB fossil, and the usual
>> little partitions. I think the 5GB fossil is overkill, but I'm a newbie to
>> this stuff.
>
> any size fossil larger than a gigabyte is an overkill until you really
> need the room -- then it becomes insufficient..
>
> I know one person had problems with a 1GB fossil however -- he
> simply couldn't store a file larger than that in it :)

As I'm getting more familier with fossil+venti, and yesteray, I reformatted
(actually re-prepped) one of our work space's fossil+venti file server's disk.

--rw-r----- S 0 sys sys    10453504 Dec 16 18:46 /dev/sdC0/9fat
--rw-r----- S 0 sys sys  1062993408 Dec 16 18:46 /dev/sdC0/cache
--rw-r----- S 0 sys sys           0 Dec 16 18:46 /dev/sdC0/ctl
--rw-r----- S 0 sys sys 40020664320 Dec 16 18:46 /dev/sdC0/data
--rw-r----- S 0 sys sys  3498247168 Dec 16 18:46 /dev/sdC0/fossil
--rw-r----- S 0 sys sys         512 Dec 16 18:46 /dev/sdC0/nvram
--rw-r----- S 0 sys sys  8930334720 Dec 16 18:46 /dev/sdC0/other
--rw-r----- S 0 sys sys 40015954944 Dec 16 18:46 /dev/sdC0/plan9
-lrw------- S 0 sys sys           0 Dec 16 18:46 /dev/sdC0/raw
--rw-r----- S 0 sys sys   744089088 Dec 16 18:46 /dev/sdC0/swap
--rw-r----- S 0 sys sys  6442450944 Dec 16 18:46 /dev/sdC0/v.index0
--rw-r----- S 0 sys sys  6442450944 Dec 16 18:46 /dev/sdC0/v.index1
--rw-r----- S 0 sys sys  6442450944 Dec 16 18:46 /dev/sdC0/v.index2
--rw-r----- S 0 sys sys  6442451456 Dec 16 18:46 /dev/sdC0/v.index3

Here, we have 3.4GB fossil partition, and I got diskfull error to copy all
the staffs to the new disk.  (Venti has 120GB capacity, however, in this
case Venti is not concerned).   So, if you are planning to copy existing
large file system to a new fossil, you must be carefull to choose fossil
size.

Kenji