Okay, I'll give it a try.
I must first decide on a (quasi)stable dir tree. The problem is that I have
almost 2TB of data,
so should I have another 2TB disk for Venti if I want to put there all?
Thanks,
Peter.
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:54 PM, a...@9srv.net wrote:
I reorganize my data very
I have an IDE HD with fossil (no venti) partition on it. It contains some
data precious to me.
I would like to mount it on a native Plan9; yes, I've RTFM, but it seems to
me too brief for me to avoid (fatal) mistakes.
Thus, could some nice person lead me step - by - step?
Let's say your
// I have an IDE HD with fossil (no venti) partition on it.
// It contains some data precious to me.
David's already provided good instructions on dealing with your
immediate problem, but allow me to take a step back:
Don't do that!
Fossil, without venti, is not the stablest thing around. I
Thanks for warning!
However, I reorganize my data very often, moving between dirs, renaming,
reorganising tree structure...
How will Venti cope with this?
Fopr now, I plan to put the data onto an ext2 partition for now, until I
feel the dir tree is well-designed.
I just want to mount the fossil
I reorganize my data very often, moving between dirs, renaming,
reorganising tree structure...
How will Venti cope with this?
Well. Venti does block-level deduplication. If you have 100 MB of data
in dir A and move it to dir B, you're not going to duplicate that storage
(you'll get new blocks
