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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:33:00 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] linux il/ip
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in my limited experience, the file server is much easier to set up,
makes fewer demands on hardware and exhibits lower lantency
 than venti+fossil running on a cpu kernel.  

but if you're going to run a cpu kernel, i see no point in the file
server code. 

- erik

On Tue Sep 26 12:19:23 CDT 2006, rsc@swtch.com wrote:
> The only even plausible reason is to connect to old
> Plan 9 file servers, but your effort would be better spent
> writing some glue so that the old file server code could
> run in user space on standard kernels.