[9fans] venti ports and productization

[a@9srv.net]

a few times someone (ehg?) has talked about work
being done to get venti working on other OSs, and
i at least got the impression that this was
being donwe with an eye towards productization. i,
for one, am very interested. i've recently found
myself back in the world of "operations". we're
in the (slow) process of moving the IT stuff over
to Mac OS X from various vintages of Win32. we
currently use some commercial app for backups on
the server, and it's pretty good. but i'm
reluctant to buy more than one copy. it's not
*that* good. but given the equivalent of /n/dump
on OS X, and some decent management tools (so i
can have non-plan9 types admin it), i'd gladly
shell out $100/mac, more for the servers. i'd
even buy a few copies of a Win32 port, since it
may be a while until we've nixed all that crap.

so... is work on that progressing? is it more
research or product? any ETA? any details of the
work being done (just raw venti, or some level
of FS integration)? thanks,
ア