Re: [9fans] kencc, inferno hg, v9fs is big?, porting

[Abhishek Kulkarni <abbyzcool@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Sam Watkins <sam@nipl.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 06:22:28PM +0800, sqweek wrote:
>> http://gsoc.cat-v.org/projects/kencc/
>
> Looks good, I can't seem to find how to download that, is there anonymous hg
> access or a tarball at all?
>

http://gsoc.cat-v.org/hg/kenc

> Speaking of hg - I think we should patch it to support empty directories so
> that the inferno checkout actually builds.  Or else commit some hidden file in
> those directories?
>
> I tried to check out v9fs, but the compressed git repo without checkout is over
> 300Mb.  The checkout was going to be more than that, but it failed due to my
> server running out of disk space.  Why is that project, a filesystem, larger
> than the entire linux kernel and several times larger than all of plan 9?
> Or am I missing something here?
>

What you are checking out is a branch of the linux kernel
tagged v9fs and not just the 9p modules in themselves.
To download the standalone download v9fs modules,
http://github.com/ericvh/9p-sac
is probably what you want.
The linux kernel git branches are getting huge in size wtih
all the associated history.

> I want to port some of my programs to plan 9 soon. I'll read some of the plan 9
> source, hopefully I can improve my C coding so that my programs don't look like
> broken bricks among jewels.
>
> thanks,
>
> Sam
>
>