From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20091001132324.GA8508@nipl.net> References: <4c83c9076f3de55d5a49deff52f0f37c@proxima.alt.za> <140e7ec30910010322j13a193b4j7b0bb9704cbb4604@mail.gmail.com> <20091001132324.GA8508@nipl.net> From: Abhishek Kulkarni Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 09:48:10 -0400 Message-ID: <223eadbc0910010648g799ec3ra297f0db18a11fb4@mail.gmail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] kencc, inferno hg, v9fs is big?, porting Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7b2aa19e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Sam Watkins 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. =C2=A0Or else commit some hidd= en file in > those directories? > > I tried to check out v9fs, but the compressed git repo without checkout i= s over > 300Mb. =C2=A0The checkout was going to be more than that, but it failed d= ue to my > server running out of disk space. =C2=A0Why 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 loo= k like > broken bricks among jewels. > > thanks, > > Sam > >