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: <861utuht0w.fsf@cmarib.ramside> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 20:50:34 +0000 In-Reply-To: <861utuht0w.fsf@cmarib.ramside> (smiley@icebubble.org's message of "Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:03:11 +0000") Message-ID: <86ipmza9yd.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: 3dbf70f8-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 smiley@icebubble.org writes: > Jeremy Jackins 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? -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ |Smiley PGP key ID: BC549F8B | |Fingerprint: 9329 DB4A 30F5 6EDA D2BA 3489 DAB7 555A BC54 9F8B| +---------------------------------------------------------------+