Re: [9fans] plan9port update - venti and backups

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

Cool beans,  I'll give it a shot later this week perhaps

On 7/18/05, Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com> wrote:
> I worked through a few months of Plan 9 from User Space
> changes over the last week.  Many new things in CVS and
> also in the web tarball.
> 
> The main new thing is a revised venti(8) server which should
> be significantly faster than the Plan 9 one.  Eventually
> this code will become the venti(8) server for Plan 9 itself.
> Also included is a new venti application, vbackup(8), which
> stores disk image-based backups to a venti server and
> presents them via a loopback NFS server.  Like everything
> else in plan9port, venti and vbackup have been tested
> mainly on Linux and FreeBSD.
> 
> Unlike on Plan 9, venti is fully documented with a suite of
> man pages describing not only the server but the system
> in general, the protocol, and the library.
> 
> The tree should compile cleanly on Mac OS X 10.4 now.
> Hopefully I haven't broken support for earlier OS X versions.
> 
> Running on SunOS is a continuing challenge.  Maybe it's
> a little easier now.  Feel free to send me patches to make
> life better for SunOS users (they deserve it, the poor things!)
> or for other architectures.
> 
> Various other things have been tweaked or stirred around.
> See the CHANGES file for details.
> 
> Russ
> 
> http://swtch.com/plan9port
> http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man7/venti.html
> http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man8/vbackup.html
> http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/CHANGES
>