From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <8ccc8ba40708311204x7fe20b3cl565f7b8216cd1b75@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:04:24 +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: <8ccc8ba40708311203o4f658e17k2ca0d86a1315a56c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <8ccc8ba40708311203o4f658e17k2ca0d86a1315a56c@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: b2e3ea4e-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 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 > > > > >