Re: [9fans] venti question

2009-05-13 Thread hugo rivera
2009/5/13, Steve Simon : > I would suggest you try again from scratch. I did, and now everything is working now with twice as many arenas :-) I just extracted some files from march 15, and everything seems to be working just fine. I reformatted the indexes and called fmtindex with the new venti.c

Re: [9fans] venti question

2009-05-13 Thread hugo rivera
2009/5/13, erik quanstrom : > perhaps your man pages our out-of-sync. the old > (and delted) ventiaux(8) man page has the first option > description and the second signature is found in > venti-fmt(8). yes, they are inconsistent with the actual version of buildindex. The man pages I am using a

Re: [9fans] venti question

2009-05-13 Thread Steve Simon
> so I removed the isect1 line from my venti.conf and executed > > venti/buildindex -i isect1 $home/lib/venti.conf > > and got > > 1,731,717 clumps, 63,903 buckets > 2009/0513 10:35:35 read index > warning: did not find index section isect1 Are you suffering from an off by one error? you remov

Re: [9fans] venti question

2009-05-13 Thread erik quanstrom
> venti/buildindex [ -B blockcachesize ] [ -Z ] venti.conf tmp > > but execute buildindex with no arguments and you get > > usage: buildindex [-bd] [-i isect]... [-M imem] venti.conf > > options -b -d -i -M are not described in the man page and I have no > idea what they are supposed to do (alth

Re: [9fans] venti question

2009-05-13 Thread hugo rivera
I am trying to use buildindex but I run into trouble: 1.- the man page and the usage displayed by the command are inconsistent. According to the man page, buildindex takes two arguments and may take two options venti/buildindex [ -B blockcachesize ] [ -Z ] venti.conf tmp but execute buildindex wi

Re: [9fans] venti question

2009-05-12 Thread Steve Simon
I wrote this some time ago, not sure if this represents a large enough installation for you. http://www.quintile.net/papers/Venti-rescue.pdf -Steve

Re: [9fans] venti question

2009-05-12 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue May 12 11:20:33 EDT 2009, lu...@ionkov.net wrote: > If you add more index sections, you have to rebuild the index using > venti/buildindex. does buildindex revisit all the data? are there any pactice/experience-style writups out there from folks with large venti setups? - erik

Re: [9fans] venti question

2009-05-12 Thread hugo rivera
OK, thanks 2009/5/12 Latchesar Ionkov : > If you add more index sections, you have to rebuild the index using > venti/buildindex. > >    Lucho > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:20 AM, hugo rivera wrote: >> Hi, >> I've been running a venti server for a couple of months now, and since >> the arenas I a

Re: [9fans] venti question

2009-05-12 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
If you add more index sections, you have to rebuild the index using venti/buildindex. Lucho On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:20 AM, hugo rivera wrote: > Hi, > I've been running a venti server for a couple of months now, and since > the arenas I am using are not very big, I need to add a couple more

[9fans] venti question

2009-05-12 Thread hugo rivera
Hi, I've been running a venti server for a couple of months now, and since the arenas I am using are not very big, I need to add a couple more. According to the man pages it's safe to add more arenas and the run venti/fmtindex -a, but it isn't clear to me if this also applies to the index section f