From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] venti ports and productization In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Oct 2003 20:37:01 EDT." <2ac5be8bf0047fa964b6c7068ab24559@9srv.net> From: "Russ Cox" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <5982.1065838445.1@t40.swtch.com> Message-Id: Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:14:05 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6cc09806-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 A while ago I ported vac (not vacfs!) to Windows. Dave and Eric made the port work a bit better, but my impression (from afar) is that there hasn't been any further work, especially not toward commercialization. [Jmk's recent mail supports this.] I ported Venti the server to FreeBSD a year ago, though the port is incomplete and unsatisfactory for various reasons. I also wrote a program to store FFS file system images as vac-style streams and another program to parse the backed-up images and serve them over an NFS loopback server. We back up just under 200GB of disk every night. I'm very happy with it. amsterdam=; hist ~/.profile Sep 6 22:50:53 EDT 2003 /home/am3/rsc/.profile 900 Sep 6 22:50:53 EDT 2003 /dump/am3/2003/1010/rsc/.profile 900 Apr 10 18:30:26 EDT 2003 /dump/am3/2003/0906/rsc/.profile 851 Jan 27 18:22:32 EST 2003 /dump/am3/2003/0410/rsc/.profile 797 amsterdam=; These programs use the same unsatisfactory port environment. Over the next few months I plan to clean them up and make them build using the new port environment that I used for samterm (which I'd be packaging right now if I weren't writing this email ;-). I'm also thinking about various ways to speed up the Venti server (which is currently dog slow) but again that won't happen for a few months -- I'm up to my eyeballs in other things. Russ