Re: [9fans] fossil+venti vs. cwfs - dealing with backups

2018-04-16 Thread Steven Stallion
The easiest method with cwfs or Ken's is to keep track of the size of the WORM - since everything is appended, it's fairly simple to copy the set of blocks after each dump. It's been a few years since I've done this, but it is just as reliable as venti, albeit less convenient. On Mon, Apr 16,

[9fans] fossil+venti vs. cwfs - dealing with backups

2018-04-16 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
What has kept me running fossil+venti is the ease of backing up the file server. Copying the venti arenas offsite is trivial. And Geoff put together glue to write sealed arenas to blu-ray as well. I don't see any simple way to do that with cwfs*. Or hjfs. I am very curious to know how the

Re: [9fans] the fossil (tm) stolen

2018-04-16 Thread Joe M
Hello, Recently, I tried fossil on 9front (libventi library) and came across 2 issues. 1. flfmt -v fails with "no qidSpace" 2. fossil hangs while snap -a is working in the background. This happens during the initial load as there is more data to work through. A few GB of unventi'd data can cause

Re: [9fans] the fossil (tm) stolen

2018-04-16 Thread Steven Stallion
Five. I just haven't had the heart to decommission it yet. On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 4:22 AM, Lucio De Re wrote: > Four. Long-standing nobody, too. > > Lucio. >

Re: [9fans] the fossil (tm) stolen

2018-04-16 Thread Lucio De Re
Four. Long-standing nobody, too. Lucio.

Re: [9fans] the fossil (tm) stolen

2018-04-16 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
3 nobody's; I switched to fossil+venti about 4 years ago. I also know of at least 2 other nobody's that run it. -Skip On Mon, Apr 16, 2018, 12:10 AM Pavel Klinkovský wrote: > > I Really use fossil and venti and have done so for the last 12 years, >> though perhaps

Re: [9fans] the fossil (tm) stolen

2018-04-16 Thread Pavel Klinkovský
> I Really use fossil and venti and have done so for the last 12 years, > though perhaps I am nobody... > So we are 2 nobodies, at least... ;) Pavel