From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e6050719125958fd8a66@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:59:32 -0700 From: David Leimbach To: Russ Cox , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9port update - venti and backups In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6bd9308e-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Cool beans, I'll give it a shot later this week perhaps On 7/18/05, Russ Cox 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > The tree should compile cleanly on Mac OS X 10.4 now. > Hopefully I haven't broken support for earlier OS X versions. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Various other things have been tweaked or stirred around. > See the CHANGES file for details. >=20 > Russ >=20 > 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 >