Re: [9fans] Survey: Current Fossil+venti Filesystem

[Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>]

I can't remember ever having lost data with fossil+venti,
on two complete networked systems that have been running
on fossil/venti since 2004 and 2005, and they both store
quite a bit:

[2004]
index=main
total arenas=11 active=7
total space=51,385,286,656 used=28,842,582,973
clumps=10,363,594 compressed clumps=8,225,943 data=53,987,673,480 compressed data=28,189,676,551

that's recently been copied to a new drive (soon a set of drives).
originally it was to have gone to an SSD, but that failed completely within
15 hours, and i reverted to the clone i'd made on a 320 Gb disk.

[2005]
index=main
total arenas=61 active=57
total space=32748126208 used=30256097096
clumps=8383698 compressed clumps=5978935 data=55987976415 compressed data=29727924122

i see that the 2005 system is probably due for copying to a new arena, and running
a newer instance of fossil/venti. in fact i see that kernel+fossil+venti
themselves date from 2005.

i also ran fossil+venti systems on several laptops and makes of laptops
during that time, and never had a problem.

i can't remember ever having to reinit the fossils from an archive.