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From: Jeremy Jackins <jeremyjackins@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] FS for sharing between Linux and Plan 9
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:51:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOr72mjGa1Pbe=qnC7WCCYtESWpsOShjivC9DcB+DJNZ-1gY=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861utuht0w.fsf@cmarib.ramside>

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 7:03 PM,  <smiley@icebubble.org> wrote:
> I know it's kinda OT, but was there a particular reason you wanted more
> than btrfs could offer?

No, I like btrfs, but as far as I know Plan 9 doesn't support it.

> There's a port of Plan 9 utilities to Linux userspace.  It's called Plan
> 9 Port (aka p9p).  See http://swtch.com/plan9port/.  Linux machines with
> p9p should be able to talk to fossil/venti.

Okay, thanks, I've been using p9p to play around with acme and such on
linux, but I didn't know it could do this.

> Of course, if your "external drive" contains a CPU (i.e., one of the NAS
> boxen being sold as "external drives"), the "drive" itself may be able
> to run 9p.  :)

Hm, I don't think so. Maybe external drive was the wrong term, what I
have is actually just a little enclosure thing that I pop a normal
3.5" drive into and power on, which then has a USB port.

> Would replica meet your needs?  Under some circumstances, rsync
> outperforms replica.  For some purposes, a DVCS such as Mercurial (which
> has also been ported to P9) is more appropriate.  It depends on a mix of
> factors.

Thanks, I'll have a look at replica.

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 7:35 PM, andrey mirtchovski
<mirtchovski@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been using the ufs version written in Go by Latchesar Ionkov
> (go9p.googlecode.com) recently with great success. It connects the
> underlying OS with Plan 9 on a hosted virtual box image, linked via a
> bridged network. It's not completely bug-free so you can't expect to,
> for example, do a complete build of Go over it, but it is at worst
> 1.5* slower and at best 2* faster than a native fossil.

Interesting. Incidentally I've been wondering what the status of Go on
Plan 9 is lately. cat-v.org tells me "Status: Being integrated with
mainline", but they haven't updated in a couple weeks and I can't seem
to find much other info.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-31  5:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-30 22:30 Jeremy Jackins
2011-10-31  1:03 ` smiley
2011-10-31  1:35   ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-10-31  5:51   ` Jeremy Jackins [this message]
2011-11-04 20:50   ` smiley
2011-11-04 20:57     ` Russ Cox
2011-11-04 22:53       ` David du Colombier
2011-11-05 20:32         ` smiley
2011-11-05 22:56           ` David du Colombier
2011-11-07 17:09             ` David du Colombier

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