Stop being sensible! There is no room on this list for such behaviour. brucee
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:49 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:28 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> >> wrote: >> >> > what extra work would that be, >> >> >> >> that it pulls files in their entirety (IOW: cp /n/sources/... /) >> > >> > i would be very suprised if a single copy of sources had many shared >> > blocks. >> >> He doesn't want a single copy though, he is hoping to mirror >> sourcesdump. That's 2255 almost-copies of sources. Yes, there will be >> changes in each snapshot, but how often does something like >> /extra/python.iso.bz2 change? > > exactly. the point i was trying to make, and evidently > was being too coy about, is that 330 odd gb wouldn't > be as useful a number as the sum of the sizes of all the > new/changed files from all the dump days. this would > be a useful comparison because this would give a > measure of how much space is saved with venti over > the straightforward algorithm of copying the changed > blocks, as ken's fileserver does. > > - erik > >
