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From: Ethan Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9P or better file services for multiple platforms
Date: Sun,  2 Sep 2018 18:44:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1535910240.3778367.1494266984.4C7B2E47@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJQ9t7gZN9pwtyzzzgq2hwLYKPsuMtKWPbf3Swzq2FBCwKYPhw@mail.gmail.com>

I had a thought pertaining to the original topic.

On Sat, Sep 1, 2018, at 6:21 AM, Lucio De Re wrote:
> The question, then, is what file service will satisfy these needs,
> including access control, automatic backup as provided by default
> under Plan 9, etc. I am not very fond of Linux's propensity to need
> daily upgrades, but Plan 9 has quirks of its own, which I would be
> hard pressed to enumerate here, but we are all aware of.
>
> If I could run the file server on a modern (or even an ancient)
> version of NetBSD, I'd be even happier as NetBSD is the Unix flavour I
> highly favour. But that is a bonus, not an essential.

Regarding the automatic backup, FreeBSD's UFS (the default filesystem) provides snapshots much like CWFS's dump.  I think you can enable it for the whole filesystem with a mount option, but if not, I think it's quite easy to set up anyway.

FreeBSD has ZFS too, which of course offers snapshots, but it has so many options that I found it a bit too much.  It seems well documented and the interface seems reasonable for the feature set, but it's a big feature set.  I have a habit of trying to understand and use too much at once, I guess.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-02 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-01  5:21 Lucio De Re
2018-09-01 10:29 ` Rui Carmo
2018-09-01 13:33   ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-01 14:03     ` Emery Hemingway
2018-09-01 14:33       ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-01 14:49         ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-01 18:00           ` Joseph Stewart
2018-09-02 11:14             ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-02 11:24               ` hiro
2018-09-02 11:30                 ` hiro
2018-09-02 12:01                   ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-02 12:16                     ` hiro
2018-09-02 12:22                       ` hiro
2018-09-02 17:51                         ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-02 18:00                           ` hiro
2018-09-02 18:07                           ` hiro
2018-09-02 11:43                 ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-02 11:48                 ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-02 12:07                   ` hiro
2018-09-03  4:03                     ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-01 18:32   ` Ethan Gardener
2018-09-01 20:33     ` hiro
2018-09-02 11:22       ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-02 11:25         ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-02 11:32           ` hiro
2018-09-02 17:44 ` Ethan Gardener [this message]
2018-09-02 18:02   ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-02 18:19     ` Ethan Gardener
2018-09-02 18:24       ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-02 18:55         ` Ethan Gardener
2018-09-02 17:47 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2018-09-02 17:55   ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-02 18:09   ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-02 23:22     ` Kurt H Maier
2018-09-03  3:22       ` Lucio De Re
     [not found] <600987589.2057147.1535842278571.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2018-09-01 22:51 ` Brian L. Stuart
2018-09-02  9:25   ` Lucio De Re
2018-09-02 17:03     ` Bakul Shah
2018-09-02 13:33 cinap_lenrek

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