From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <23240.128.107.253.38.1111645992.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:33:12 -0600 Subject: Re: [9fans] Driver for SAN adapter From: vdharani@infernopark.com To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 28f968ce-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > On Wed Mar 23 15:20:31 JST 2005, Matthias Teege wrote: >> > btw, you might be able to use a large unix file on >> > the IBM ESS mounted via u9fs for a venti arena. > > This might not be correct why? long back i was thinking that it should be possible use high-end SCSI disks and use raw disk interface on Linux and use this setup from plan9 as disk area for kfs. I was thinking about a TCP/UDP kind of communication but thats what u9fs does anyway. so i think it is a good idea. similarly, i think one can use flash disks or thumb drives with venti to carry plan9 data. thanks dharani