Re: [9fans] Corrupted file entry on QEMU - how to recover?

[john@csplan9.rit.edu]

On Sun Dec 16 20:58:30 EST pietro10@mac.com wrote:
> I have no venti partition, and venti/conf asks for one called  
> v.arenas. The reason was that the default configuration of the  
> installer only gave fossil 700MB and venti/arenas 3GB. I wasn't sure  
> that would be sufficient for my files :-)
> 

Unless I completely misunderstand the way venti and fossil work, that
would be quite sufficient unless you plan on creating more than
about 700 MB of files in a day. After you install, fossil will flush everything
to venti, which *should* get you a pretty much empty fossil partition--
it's just a cache, remember. Your files will then be moved from fossil
to venti every night thereafter. Since venti practices block compression,
it shouldn't be much of a problem to have venti... unless you copy in
a whole bunch of mp3 files and then decide you don't want them *after*
venti has written them.
I used a fossil+venti system to store a bunch of music at one point. I would
fill up the fossil buffer with mp3s, then force a sync to venti, then re-fill
the fossil buffer, repeating until I had transferred everything and written
it to venti.
If the things I've said here are wrong or don't make sense, let me know.

John