Re: [9fans] farewell to /sys/src/fs and IL

["Francisco J Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>]

FTS, did not have cwfs those days. Today we'd probably just copy the storage
to new disks and then mount it with cwfs.

On 8/31/07, Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
>