From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil, without, venti? From: okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 10:55:18 +0900 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ab0ce862-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >> 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