Re: [9fans] New plan 9 Installation and File Systems

[geoff@collyer.net]

I run Ken's fs because I have a WORM jukebox and I've found Ken's fs
to be very reliable.

I'd forgotten about the DMTMP bit; I ought to add that to Ken's fs.

jmk seems to be understandably quite busy, so I'm making my January
5th snapshot of the 64-bit ken fs available now, at
http://www.collyer.net/~geoff/9/fs64.tgz.  This one includes longer
filename components (55 rather than 27 bytes maximum), Intel gigabit
Ethernet driver, better IDE disk support using DMA and RWM if
available, file truncation via wstat, and automatic shutdown if an APC
UPS warns of low power (courtesy Nigel Roles).

Still to be done are the DMTMP bit, AoE support, possible interface to
a venti store, and porting the upper part of the fs kernel to a cpu
kernel.

Note too that this kernel can be built as a 32-bit fs kernel, for
compatibility with existing on-disk file systems.  Thus one could use
it just to pick up the other improvements (igbe driver, faster IDE,
wstat truncation, UPS shutdown).