From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20091020165301757382.0498c09e@yahoo.co.uk> References: <20091020165301757382.0498c09e@yahoo.co.uk> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:00:25 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil in Plan 9 from User Space From: Russ Cox To: plan9port-dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8cffbe68-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 -9fans, +plan9port-dev On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Albert Skye wrote: > I'm wondering if/when fossil might become part of plan9port. I found only= a thread from 2007 mentioning that it had not been ported. > > It is of particular interest to me because I'm preparing various machines= (which are not supported by Plan 9) to manage data on dedicated disks. My = thought was to use Plan 9 from User Space, under BSD or Linux as necessary = (defending upon hardware support), and fossil to provide a consistent inter= face to these dedicated disks, and to ensure portability (in case the disks= were moved to new platform; to avoid migrating the data to a new file syst= em). > >