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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Additional compilers under 9vx.OSX
Date: Fri,  8 Apr 2011 08:26:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ec6240fc203680672ccdbd76ca333130@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikBi5b8Go_h2Nukw-RNXjnvo9ox2g@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri Apr  8 05:10:49 EDT 2011, rogpeppe@gmail.com wrote:
> i'm not keen on disks within disks because you either have to waste
> lots of space or risk running out of it.

true, but ...

is disk space your most constrained resource?
is a free byte on disk wasted or not?

i bought the smallest practical disks to use in
a raid5, and still have this ratio of used to free

		wmax   =  1787567           0+ 0%
		wsize  = 183143631           1+ 0%

so plan 9 has really miniscule requirements.  and
both venti and cwfs can add storage on an add-needed basis.
so you don't need to "waste" more than a 1gb at a time.
(probablly <= 1/4 the amount of ram you have in your
machine :-)

i'd probablly just devote 32gb to the 9vx and be done
with it.  it's taken me 7 years to fill up the first 13.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-08 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-07 13:34 Greg Comeau
2011-04-07 13:47 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-11  9:18   ` Greg Comeau
2011-04-11  9:53     ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-12  8:51       ` Greg Comeau
2011-04-12  9:06         ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-11 10:44     ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-11 13:51       ` David Leimbach
2011-04-12  8:51         ` Greg Comeau
2011-04-12 14:07           ` David Leimbach
2011-04-11  9:19   ` Greg Comeau
2011-04-07 14:10 ` Richard Miller
2011-04-11  9:18   ` Greg Comeau
2011-04-21  9:22   ` Greg Comeau
2011-04-07 14:30 ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-11  9:18   ` Greg Comeau
2011-04-11 13:26     ` Greg Comeau
2011-04-21  9:22       ` Greg Comeau
2011-05-04 11:39         ` Greg Comeau
2011-05-04 15:31           ` ron minnich
2011-04-07 15:38 ` ron minnich
2011-04-07 15:45   ` Paul Lalonde
2011-04-07 15:46     ` Paul Lalonde
2011-04-07 15:51     ` ron minnich
2011-04-07 19:04       ` Steve Simon
2011-04-07 19:11         ` Stanley Lieber
2011-04-07 17:13     ` Anthony Sorace
2011-04-07 18:06       ` ron minnich
2011-04-08  9:09     ` roger peppe
2011-04-08 12:26       ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-04-11  9:18   ` Greg Comeau

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