Re: [9fans] Sensible fossil+venti partitioning

[csant <csant@csant.info>]

> Fossil needs to be big enough for all the changes you are likely
> to do between venti snapshots.
Aha, so fossil itself is not going to store anything but the difference
 from the last venti snapshot?

> Given venti usually snapshots every night I would say a fossil of
> between 2 and 4 Gb is enough for most people.
>
> You will want a swap of 1Gb or so, a 9fat of 100Mb, a sector
> for nvram and perhaps another for fsconfig
> (if you are mirroring or striping).
>
> Give the remainder to Venti - about 5% to index and 95% to the arena.
I seem to understand that Plan 9 can only boot from a primary partition -
is there any problem having venti on a secondary partition?

How much hassle is it to mount venti on a different (secondary) partition?
In that case, how much trouble have I to go through to simply set up venti
on that partition and start using it, without having to re-install and
-format everything?

/c