From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <775b8d190602180737r449c9a7age16fd429e8fba580@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 02:37:11 +1100 From: "Bruce Ellis" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Ken fs updated In-Reply-To: <0d3bddfb00dd11d7677fbe2ccc393c16@swtch.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <97154bb00602172306le1c6e19rc30ec516c2332890@mail.gmail.com> <0d3bddfb00dd11d7677fbe2ccc393c16@swtch.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 01972978-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Please address this. When ir screws wirth me it's real. brucee On 2/18/06, Russ Cox wrote: > > Is there a install .iso? (last time I installed it was changed to fossi= l only) > > The /sys/src/fs file server is not intended for use in new systems. > We don't even use it much inside Bell Labs anymore. It's included > in the distribution mainly for those who must maintain old servers. > > It's true that fossil had stability problems early on (though thanks > to venti I've never lost any data), but it is pretty solid now. > I fixed some performance bugs related to sync and remove > recently, but otherwise we haven't been significant changes. > > The only outstanding problem I know about in fossil is that > it doesn't handle filling up gracefully. But neither does the > old file server. > > Russ > >