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Subject: Re: [9fans] 4th edition file server available
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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
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Date: Wed,  8 Jan 2003 12:09:07 +0100
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Congratulations!

I feel a bit adventurous -- but also in the need of
a little (or more?) hand-holding.

I have browsed through the setting up docs on wiki,
and a couple of the refered man pages, but
could not easily see how to build a fossil from
(to replace) an existing fake-worm file server,
taking into account the dump partition.

I recall reading before that at bell labs worm
disks of the fs were copied ``by hand'' one by one,
by taking them out of the fs.
Is there a way to transfer dump to fossil from
a running fake-worm fs (so, just using normal 9p
access, without going to the ``raw disks'')?

On a related note: my fake-worm fs uses relatively small
blocks (4Kb). Can I freely choose a block size for the
venti underlying the fossil, or should there be
a strict relation between the fake-worm  block size
and the fossil/venti block size (e.g. due to transfer
of dump blocks)?

Thanks for any insight (pointers welcome),
Axel.

> The new 4th edition file server, named Fossil,
> is now available on sources.  There are some
> how-to docs for setting up Venti and Fossil at:
[snip] 
> It is still a work in progress, but it's ready to be used
> by those feeling adventurous.