From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] a few misc. questions...
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:04:12 -0700 [thread overview]
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:13 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>wrote:
> > ... but which would be considered the most logical place to deal with
> > things such as setting hd parameters for the machine on bootup like
> > the 'echo dma on > /dev/sdC0/ctl' example above?
>
> also see dmaon(8). just as an obvious note, this only
> affects interfaces using ide or ide emulation. you can
> tell which driver you're using by catting /dev/sdctl. for
> example, the first drive is ide. unfortunately, the driver
> calls itself "ata".
>
> ladd# cat /dev/sdctl
> sdC ata port 1F0 ctl 3F4 irq 14
> sdE ahci sb600 port 0xe0022800: 64a alp clo coal led mps ncq ntf pm pslum
> slum iss 2 ncs 31 np 4 ghc 80000002 isr 0 pi f 0-3 ver 10100
>
> > > Kfs is the older disk file system for standalone terminals and the
> like.
> > > For most purposes, fossil replaces it. Fossil is user-mode, while kfs
> > > is a "kernel file system." See in kfs(4).
> > >
> >
> > Ok, so I may simply generally disregard any mention of kfs in any docs or
> > scripts and config files I might happen upon? Since fossil has
> effectively
> > deprecated kfs?
>
> both (as noted) are user-level fses. and while kfs is older and
> simpler, it is very robust. there may be more kfs in operation
> than any other plan 9 fs. fossil does snapshots, talks to venti
> and other things, but being more complicated, there are more
> ways for it to go sideways.
>
> so like anything else you don't use, feel free to ignore. but
> that doesn't mean kfs is "deprecated". i think it's just a different
> tool for a different task.
>
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that, in an emulated environment, I'd pick kfs over
Venti, most of the time, unless your goal is to learn about Venti and Fossil
:-).
You can do Fossil without Venti too, but it's not as fun :-)
Dave
>
> - erik
>
>
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-22 5:21 Corey
2009-07-22 5:59 ` Josh Wood
2009-07-22 6:08 ` Josh Wood
2009-07-22 7:31 ` Corey
2009-07-22 8:35 ` Josh Wood
2009-07-22 8:40 ` Richard Miller
2009-07-22 13:13 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-22 15:04 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2009-07-22 17:57 ` hiro
2009-07-22 19:12 ` David Leimbach
2009-07-23 3:36 ` Corey
2009-07-23 4:33 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-07-24 15:48 ` maht
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