From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:14:28 +0200 To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Sensible fossil+venti partitioning From: csant Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <13627d93c2587e4b5e42edda1e8f67b5@quintile.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <13627d93c2587e4b5e42edda1e8f67b5@quintile.net> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.01 (Linux) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7ded4a98-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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