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NAME
venti.conf - a venti configuration file
DESCRIPTION
A venti configuration file enumerates the various index
sections and arenas that constitute a venti system. The
components are indicated by the name of the file, typically
a disk partition, in which they reside. The configuration
file is the only location that file names are used.
Internally, venti uses the names assigned when the
components were formatted with fmtarenas or fmtisect (see
venti-fmt(8)). In particular, by changing the configuration
a component can be copied to a different file.
The configuration file consists of lines in the form
described below. Lines starting with # are comments.
index name
Names the index for the system.
arenas file
File contains a collection of arenas, formatted using
fmtarenas.
isect file
File contains an index section, formatted using
fmtisect.
After formatting a venti system using fmtindex, the order of
arenas and index sections should not be changed. Additional
arenas can be appended to the configuration.
The configuration file optionally holds configuration param-
eters for the venti server itself. These are:
mem cachesize
bcmem blockcachesize
icmem indexcachesize
addr ventiaddress
httpaddr httpaddress
queuewrites
See venti(8) for descriptions of these variables.
EXAMPLE
# a sample venti configuration file
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#
# formatted with
# venti/fmtarenas arena. /tmp/disks/arenas
# venti/fmtisect isect0 /tmp/disks/isect0
# venti/fmtisect isect1 /tmp/disks/isect1
# venti/fmtindex venti.conf
#
# server is started with
# venti/venti
# the name of the index
index main
# the index sections
isect /tmp/disks/isect0
isect /tmp/disks/isect1
# the arenas
arenas /tmp/disks/arenas
SEE ALSO
fs(3), venti(8), venti-fmt(8)
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