From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: smiley@icebubble.org To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:03:11 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Jeremy Jackins's message of "Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:30:09 -0600") Message-ID: <861utuht0w.fsf@cmarib.ramside> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [9fans] FS for sharing between Linux and Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3ca98636-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Jeremy Jackins writes: > Until recently I was using btrfs on this disk for the snapshot > support, and was only sharing it between Linux machines. I know it's kinda OT, but was there a particular reason you wanted more than btrfs could offer? > I like Fossil/Venti, but if I use this on the HDD I lose the ability > to take the disk outside of my home network and plug it into a Linux > machine (right?) There's a port of Plan 9 utilities to Linux userspace. It's called Plan 9 Port (aka p9p). See http://swtch.com/plan9port/. Linux machines with p9p should be able to talk to fossil/venti. Of course, if your "external drive" contains a CPU (i.e., one of the NAS boxen being sold as "external drives"), the "drive" itself may be able to run 9p. :) > Is there an obvious solution which I am missing? My goal essentially > is to keep all my important files in this central location, easily > update it with new changes from machine A, then update machine B with > these changes. Would replica meet your needs? Under some circumstances, rsync outperforms replica. For some purposes, a DVCS such as Mercurial (which has also been ported to P9) is more appropriate. It depends on a mix of factors. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ |Smiley PGP key ID: BC549F8B | |Fingerprint: 9329 DB4A 30F5 6EDA D2BA 3489 DAB7 555A BC54 9F8B| +---------------------------------------------------------------+