From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] how to make coexit fossil+venti and fs In-Reply-To: <06d4e4a17483e1524a94ef3d8fe909fa@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:57:48 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: f96e4bb4-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 the easiest way for me was to install venti/fossil on a separate machine = and move all data to it. after my confidence in the new venti/fossil system h= ad increased to a comfortable level I just made it the main file server. no users and no really important data in my case, and I still keep a kfs disk handy -- I break things quite often. andrey On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp wrote: > I'm now going to make fossil+venti fileserver to our > Plan 9 network, because now I'm in the summer vacation > season lastly. =E2=98=BA >=20 > I have make strategy at first how to make the two file sertvers > coexit in our Plan 9 network, and I'm wondering it now. >=20 > If the fossil+venti is believed to be robust as comparable as > release 4 file server, I have no hesitation on this decision. > When I downloaded the sources two days ago, considerable > amounts of venti and fossil sources were changed. Furthermore, > I suppose Bell-Labs is still using Release 4 file server as their > primary file server. >=20 > Then, I think I should hold our present file server further. > In this case, I have to install new fossil+venti into a temporal > machine which also has local kfs filesystem. The new fossil+ > venti will be used only from that very machine in this case, > which is mostly for testing environment of new fossil+venti > system. However, I'm not a kernel/operating system person... >=20 > What is your configuration of this situation out there? > Any other recommendations to me? >=20 > Kenji >=20