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From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] farewell to /sys/src/fs and IL
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:42:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e9d8097fa0c279d2f0b8a6056867473c@9netics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca53e4ecf6d5062fc6eb25234751263b@coraid.com>

thanks for pointing this out.  it would make things more
difficult here.

anyone have any notes on migrating from kenfs to fossil/venti?

> On Thu Aug 30 18:27:44 EDT 2007, geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
>> In the interest of minimising maintenance, we're going to stop
>> maintaining Ken's fs and IL entirely.  We thank them (and Ken) for
>> many years of faithful service.  We're now running fossil with nventi
>> on our main file servers.  cwfs(4) now exists, so old juke boxes are
>> still accessible.
> 
> i hope the decision to remove il from the distribution is revisited.
> without il, anyone still using ken's fileserver will not be able to run
> a kernel from sources.
> 
> - erik



  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-31 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-30 22:27 geoff
2007-08-31 18:22 ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-31 18:42   ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2007-08-31 19:03     ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-08-31 19:04       ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-08-31 19:15         ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-31 19:23           ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-31 22:12       ` Steve Simon
2007-08-31 19:14     ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-08-31 19:42       ` geoff
2007-08-31 19:30   ` geoff
2007-08-31 19:35     ` erik quanstrom

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