From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <8ccc8ba40708311203o4f658e17k2ca0d86a1315a56c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:03:23 +0200 From: "Francisco J Ballesteros" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] farewell to /sys/src/fs and IL In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: b2de17ea-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 > >