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From: "William K. Josephson" <wkj@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: 9fans@cs.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] WORM recomendations?
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In-Reply-To: <007101c07fe5$133ee060$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr>; from boyd@planete.net on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 06:52:20PM +0100
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:06:07 -0500
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 06:52:20PM +0100, Boyd Roberts wrote:
> i've just bought a cd rom burner and the thought ocurred
> to me to build a file-server that used it as the worm.
> at like, 50c for a blank disc is a cheap, reliable solution.

For what it is worth, Russ and I have been working on something to do
dumpfs-like dumps to an ISO 9660 image.  Supports both Plan 9 and
POSIX system-use extensions (and of course Joliet, if you want it).
Still needs to banged on a bit, but it might do the trick for backups,
even though it isn't the "real thing".

 -WJ