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From: smiley@icebubble.org
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] FS for sharing between Linux and Plan 9
Date: Fri,  4 Nov 2011 20:50:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ipmza9yd.fsf@cmarib.ramside> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861utuht0w.fsf@cmarib.ramside> (smiley@icebubble.org's message of "Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:03:11 +0000")

smiley@icebubble.org writes:

> Jeremy Jackins <jeremyjackins@gmail.com> writes:

>> 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.

Hm.  It looks like I might have been wrong about that.  Digging a little
deeper, it seems like plan9port doesn't have any fdisk, prep, or fossil.
Is that correct?  (And if so, why?)  I know that Linux doesn't have any
kernel-level support for Plan 9 partitions or the fossil file system.
But can't that stuff be done in userspace, too?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-04 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-30 22:30 Jeremy Jackins
2011-10-31  1:03 ` smiley
2011-10-31  1:35   ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-10-31  5:51   ` Jeremy Jackins
2011-11-04 20:50   ` smiley [this message]
2011-11-04 20:57     ` Russ Cox
2011-11-04 22:53       ` David du Colombier
2011-11-05 20:32         ` smiley
2011-11-05 22:56           ` David du Colombier
2011-11-07 17:09             ` David du Colombier

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