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I think ehg talked/mentioned about productizing
factotum for (l)unix and windows, and IIRC not venti.
> 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.
>=20
> 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,
> =E3=82=A2