> You'd save a bunch of energy if you only powered up venti > disks once @ 4AM for a few minutes (and on demand when you > look at /n/dump).
If fossil is setup to dump to venti then it needs venti to work at all. Fossil is a write cache, so, just after the dump at 4am fossil is empty and consists only of a pointer to the root of the dump in venti; all reads are then satisfied from venti alone, until some data is written. -Steve
