On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote: > On 1/13/2011 7:42 PM, Duke Normandin wrote: > > > What is Venti again? > > Venti is the archival storage for Plan 9. Basically, new files and > changes to files get written to the Fossil file system. If Venti exists, > those changes get written to Venti; Venti never deletes anything and > works on a rather cool block-coalescing system. I highly recommend > reading the paper.
I'll look for it. Sounds something like a RAID system to me. Or `vinum' on FreebSD. > On a system with a small disk, it's a good idea to go without Venti, > because of the space required. Fossil will then hold all your files, > meaning you don't get the daily snapshots, but you probably won't miss > those immediately--there's plenty of time to set up a system with a > bigger disk for Venti if you like Plan 9, or you could even add Venti > after the fact by sticking in another disk. What is the minimum HDD capacity required to run an Auth/cpu/fs server with Venti support? -- Duke
