From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Corrupted file entry on QEMU - how to recover? Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:24:01 -0500 From: john@csplan9.rit.edu In-Reply-To: <4042B3E6-0CA3-44FF-A78D-73ED333E393D@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1bc47268-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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