On Fri Apr 8 05:10:49 EDT 2011, rogpe...@gmail.com wrote: > i'm not keen on disks within disks because you either have to waste > lots of space or risk running out of it.
true, but ... is disk space your most constrained resource? is a free byte on disk wasted or not? i bought the smallest practical disks to use in a raid5, and still have this ratio of used to free wmax = 1787567 0+ 0% wsize = 183143631 1+ 0% so plan 9 has really miniscule requirements. and both venti and cwfs can add storage on an add-needed basis. so you don't need to "waste" more than a 1gb at a time. (probablly <= 1/4 the amount of ram you have in your machine :-) i'd probablly just devote 32gb to the 9vx and be done with it. it's taken me 7 years to fill up the first 13. - erik