From: "Francisco J Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] farewell to /sys/src/fs and IL
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:03:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ccc8ba40708311203o4f658e17k2ca0d86a1315a56c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9d8097fa0c279d2f0b8a6056867473c@9netics.com>
Time ago we did it the hard way, just go day from day and archive on venti.
We use vacfs to bind old worm dumps below the actual fossil dump on venti.
But there's probably a better way.
On 8/31/07, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
> thanks for pointing this out. it would make things more
> difficult here.
>
> anyone have any notes on migrating from kenfs to fossil/venti?
>
> > On Thu Aug 30 18:27:44 EDT 2007, geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> >> In the interest of minimising maintenance, we're going to stop
> >> maintaining Ken's fs and IL entirely. We thank them (and Ken) for
> >> many years of faithful service. We're now running fossil with nventi
> >> on our main file servers. cwfs(4) now exists, so old juke boxes are
> >> still accessible.
> >
> > i hope the decision to remove il from the distribution is revisited.
> > without il, anyone still using ken's fileserver will not be able to run
> > a kernel from sources.
> >
> > - erik
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-31 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-30 22:27 geoff
2007-08-31 18:22 ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-31 18:42 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-08-31 19:03 ` Francisco J Ballesteros [this message]
2007-08-31 19:04 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-08-31 19:15 ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-31 19:23 ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-31 22:12 ` Steve Simon
2007-08-31 19:14 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-08-31 19:42 ` geoff
2007-08-31 19:30 ` geoff
2007-08-31 19:35 ` erik quanstrom
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