Re: hammer: big file changes very often

["Jonas Trollvik" <jontro@xxxxxxxxx>]

AFAIK this will only happen if the file is rewritten completley every
30 seconds. Otherwise only the changes made to the file will take up
space.
You can use chflags to mark a directory with nohistory otherwise.
//Jonas

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:42 PM,  <elekktretterr@exemail.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
> Ive just been thinking about this thing. what if i had a lets say > 1gb
> database file which changes at least every 30 seconds. if sync is run
> every 30 seconds, i would effectively create 2880 historical copies of the
> same 1gb file every day. This would equal to almost 3TB of history every
> day. I think its safe to assume that most people dont have 3TB of space.
> How would you have to configure hammer to only keep one copy a
> week(without creating 3TB of history every day) or not keep any copy of
> this file at all?
>
> Petr
>
>