From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:06:43 +0000 Message-ID: From: roger peppe To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Query regarding vac Topicbox-Message-UUID: a3ba764e-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2009/2/19 : > Hello All, > > I was using venti/write to store off small data sets which are less > than a datablock in size earlier. But now I have started using vac for > larger data but I have come across this problem: > > Writing the same datablock to the venti server used to give me the > same score always. But vac does not have that property. If I store the > same file many times it gives me different scores. that's probably because vac stores the metadata about the file as well as the file itself. the score is probably different because the access time of the file has changed. if you really always want the same score for the same file, i think you'll probably have to hack vac to do what you want (it shouldn't be hard - either just write the file data itself, or zero selected metadata).