It's part of the EFI promise: everything they touch will turn to merde :-)
optimist!
- erik
erik quanstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Of course, some support form the OS is needed, which excludes Plan9.
what is the basis for this claim? references?
- erik
Does Plan9 support GPT partitions now? The last time I tried Plan9 on a
GPT partitioned disk I got my disk severely screwed
Francisco J Ballesteros [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
a gpt partitioned disk should have its mbr declaring mostly the disk
in use, IIRC, plan 9 fdisk does not screw it up unless you decide
to change the partitions in the mbr.
On a GPT partitioned disk the mbr has to be ignored, as there is no way
erik quanstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Of course, some support form the OS is needed, which excludes Plan9.
what is the basis for this claim? references?
- erik
Does Plan9 support GPT partitions now? The last time I tried Plan9 on a
GPT partitioned disk I got my disk severely
Yes. A protective mbr is in the specification. Protective means: Not to be
used for fiddling.
the spec says that the protective mbr should include entries reserving
the space used by gpt partitions. thus if you use fdisk to edit such
a partition table, you will not harm gpt unless you delete
- Using venti for backing up a streaming application is not a good idea.
- Contiguous storage areas may be better.
So far I agree with you.
- One potential method to provide access to contiguous
disk space may be a rich partitioning system, e.g. GPT.
I can't believe what a terrible idea
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks,
is anyone already working on an venti-based storage format
which is optimized for streaming ?
ah, well, what's this mean? What kind of data rate are you looking at?
ron
It's intendet for video streaming. Upload is uncritical, but
sequential download should be fast.
The venti behind will be clustered, but that's another story ...
there's no such thing as sequential in venti. venti is content
addressed.
- erik
VAC eg. is good for archiving, but it's tree-based structure
is probably not optimal for streaming (on large files, a lot
of blocks IMHO have to be loaded before getting the first
payload block can be reached).
A typical venti tree has a branching factor of 409 (8192/20).
For a 1GB file,
