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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

Btw, I'd like anyone who has used devel sorcery in the past 3-4 months
(and has a non-empty /var/state/sorcery/tablet directory) to run cleanse
--tablet. That should clean up any weird stuff due to sorcery tablet bugs
I introduced during its development. Ive run it on both my development
machines and it cleaned everything up. I'd like this to be a
standard thing people do and I'll probably eventually make it part of
system-update, theres already a bit of on-the-fly healing in there but
cleanse --tablet is more thorough.

For now backup your /var/state/sorcery/tablet, and run it by hand, if
anything blows up majorly let me know. Hopefully that shouldnt happen
since it was fine on my boxes which have probably seen a lot more
development related bugs in that code than most people. In either case,
worst case scenario you lose the entire tablet, but thats not a huge deal,
sorcery handles the lack of tablet gracefully, its only a suppliment
right now.

Also, you can amuse yourself by running cleanse --tablet coalesce which
will hardlink identical files together and save you a bunch of space.

Heres the results on my machine:
# du -sh tablet/ tablet.backup2/
16M     tablet/
43M     tablet.backup2/
# diff -Naur tablet/ tablet.backup2/
#

Thats on ext3 with 4k inodes. A number of small files are identical so
theres a lot of space saving to be had.

Enjoy, and dont hesitate to let me know if there are any problems.

-Andrew

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:07:34PM -0800, Andrew wrote:
> Test Sorcery is now version 1.12.0-rc1. Please test.
> 
> New feature work will commence in devel sorcery for the 1.13 release now.
> 
> Thanks
> -Andrew
> 
> 
> 
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