Re: [9fans] Venti r/o directory
so you're completely disk bound? if disk activity on the windows box is also low, your venti machine must be suffering. It took just over 8 hours to copy 2.2Gb of data from an idle system to a mostly idle system. The network is 1gbit. So it's not maxing out the disk, not maxing out the cpu and not maxing out the lan but taking an inordinate amount of time. Maybe it's XP's scheduler, I suspect Scheduled Tasks (their cron) run at quite low priority, though on an idle machine . I just looked at the Limbo and there's scope for adding multi-threading, that should stir things up a bit.
Re: [9fans] Venti r/o directory
wouldn't it suffice to set temporary permissions of 777 and fixup when leavinging that directory? depth first, so it could be a while in between. Not really a massive problem but still an issue btw. it is a great way to backup.< 1% of CPU while running, which is doubly fortunate because vacput doesn't have an option to compare against previous backups so you're completely disk bound? if disk activity on the windows box is also low, your venti machine must be suffering. seems so. It is an old windows box but the activity light isn't constantly on. The only way I can tell it's doing anything top (venti is around 20% CPU (2Ghz) on a RAID1 or by watching http://127.0.0.1/storage
Re: [9fans] Venti r/o directory
> But when I unvac the resulting score with 9p9 [sic] on Debian it segfaults > because 'My Documents' is dr-xr-x-- so unvac creates a read only > directory and then tries to write into it. > [...] > > The only general purpose solution I can think of is two passes for unvac > but that doesn't sound very nice. wouldn't it suffice to set temporary permissions of 777 and fixup when leavinging that directory? > btw. it is a great way to backup. < 1% of CPU while running, which is > doubly fortunate because vacput doesn't have an option to compare > against previous backups so you're completely disk bound? if disk activity on the windows box is also low, your venti machine must be suffering. - erik
[9fans] Venti r/o directory
Hi, I'm doing Windows -> Venti using Limbo In general all is well. But when I unvac the resulting score with 9p9 on Debian it segfaults because 'My Documents' is dr-xr-x-- so unvac creates a read only directory and then tries to write into it. I've got round it for now by chmoding 770 'My Documents' 'My Documents/My Pictures' 'My Documents/My Music' but in the general case I plan to not be in control of that, plus if we copy anything from DVD/CD-ROM it ends up r/o on Windows. The only general purpose solution I can think of is two passes for unvac but that doesn't sound very nice. btw. it is a great way to backup. < 1% of CPU while running, which is doubly fortunate because vacput doesn't have an option to compare against previous backups
