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


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> - erik
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