From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <487C6892.1080208@proweb.co.uk> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:06:26 +0100 From: matt User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.14pre (X11/20080304) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image Topicbox-Message-UUID: e6fc78c2-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 (In the opposite style to usual, this was meant to go to the list, not private :) > i didn't want to sound over-confident. but vblade > is very simple; i don't see how it could have data-loosing > bugs. I can't even remember how I made it blue-screen but I managed it a couple of times. I think one time was returning the string "hello" to whatever read requests were made :> > what are you doing with (to) vblade? > Trying to do something interesting enough to write a paper for IWP, I'll get into detail when it works > snoopy's your friend. you can test just by killing vblade > and watching the packets go by. > Wireshark's pretty good too. It even knows how to decode 9p streams. > good deal. about a year after i wrote vblade, i used it > for a couple of months while i saved up for a stand-alone > aoe target. :> I'm hoping to get a decent bit of kit together for the office here. I already boot the Linux terminals from AOE, hope to soon add the Windows machine. I built a Plan 9 installer iso that includes aoe & fs as a target but I haven't managed to get a working Plan 9 system out of it yet - I got a bit side-tracked :) In the Linux world kvlade looks the way to go for performance but it didn't work on AMD64 when I tried it. I guess the Coraid boxes make Plan 9 go fast enough so I just need to stop worrying about it. m