From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 28432 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2021 08:08:59 -0000 Received: from 4ess.inri.net (216.126.196.42) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 7 Sep 2021 08:08:59 -0000 Received: from oat.nine.sirjofri.de ([5.45.105.127]) by 4ess; Tue Sep 7 04:04:15 -0400 2021 Received: from sirjofri.de ([95.90.218.212]) by oat; Tue Sep 7 10:04:05 +0200 2021 Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 08:04:04 +0000 (UTC) From: sirjofri To: james palmer <9front@9front.org> Message-ID: <08533c32-116e-48f2-8bc4-3954f6721dc8@sirjofri.de> In-Reply-To: References: <4b476a28-f104-4174-99c0-9a603ac3b198@sirjofri.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Correlation-ID: <08533c32-116e-48f2-8bc4-3954f6721dc8@sirjofri.de> List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: just-in-time dependency high-performance-oriented control Subject: Re: [9front] Venti in 9front Reply-To: 9front@9front.org Precedence: bulk 07.09.2021 01:43:45 james palmer : > Quoth : >> I'd be interested in patching cwfs so I can have an alternative layout >> without a worm partition, but dump with a venti. I believe this is >> possible. What do people who touched cwfs (and/or venti) source code >> think about that? > > i dont know if you really need to patch cwfs, i ran cwfs with no dump > and backed up to venti with a cron job for a while. That's also a solution. I assume you used vac? Did you change the 9fs script to fit the venti situation (9fs dump)? > if you do feel like patching libventi is used by both venti clients and > the server so you should be able to use that in cfws. i don't know > about the on-disk format though. Absolutely. I didn't look at cwfs dump code yet, but I can imagine it's just a matter of injecting libventi code there, together with some config stuff. > though if you want a venti backed fs, you could always just import > fossil :P perhaps from ants? That's exactly what I do _not_ want :). The reason is that fossil is not part of 9front and future changes might break compatibility and/or make the system unstable. I believe cwfs is becoming more stable, especially considering nobody wants to patch fossil code (which is the reason why it's removed). Therefore, a venti-driven backup solution for the standard pretty-stable supported cwfs is more tempting than installing fossil. It would be great if you could share more details (and scripts?) for your venti backup solution with cwfs nodump. sirjofri