> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:15 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> But perhaps the other users are smart enough to have understood all this >> at installation time, but when I first installed Plan9, that was not for >> the archival features. And I spent my time on Plan9 looking for the >> distributed system, the namespace and so on, not on venti. >> >> The question is more about the defaults and/or the documentation. > > The default is that you have so little data in comparison to a > modern disk that there is no good reason not to save full > snapshots. As Erik and others have pointed out, if you do > find reason to exclude certain trees from the snapshots, you > can use chmod +t. The system is working as intended. > > Russ
For reference, I set up our current Plan 9 system about half a year ago. We have 3.8 TB of Venti storage total. We have used 2.8 GB of that, with basically no precautions taken to set anything +t; in general, if it's around at 4 a.m., it's going into Venti. I figure we have roughly another 2,000 years of storage left at the current rate :) John
