On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 9:16 AM Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:

> > What, precisely, is your use case?
>
> As I said, the go cross-compile was just an example task to
> test the viability of v9fs. I don't *need* to cross-compile
> on linux: the 9pi image, for example, comes with native
> go binaries which I can use for bootstrapping.
>

Right.

The real use case is to have some linux-only tools -- fpga
> circuit compilation toolchains for example -- keeping their
> data on the plan 9 server, with the benefit of fossil snapshots
> and much more space than is available on a little thinkpad SSD.
>

Oh I see. Very well, then. But is it not possible that the FPGA tools don't
have the same issues with mmap that e.g. Go does? I'm afraid the rest of us
have gotten wrapped around that axle but it's a bit of a red-herring.

        - Dan C.


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