Re: [9fans] On FreeBSD's GEOM

["matt" <matt@proweb.co.uk>]

Hi,

> I was made aware that GEOM is being talked about over here and after
> checking the archive I thought I'd just drop a note with the scoop:

thanks for the input. I'm the fellow responsible for bringing GEOM to the
attention of the plan9 people.

Unfortunately it wasn't quite what I imagined. I had the man pages and
imagined that the GEOM modular design was suitable to implement virtual file
systems. I'm a userland programmer so many of the subtleties pass me by [and
some of the obvious].

User level file servers is one of those ideas that has grabbed me and I look
for the possibilities in all my projects now.

Here I am with the beautiful plan9 in my office but stalwart FreeBSD in the
co-lo.

I did start to move my databases into the file system in the hope that I
could eventually make the transition but I soon ran out of inodes.

Ah well,

I live in hope


m