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Subject: Re: [9fans] farewell to /sys/src/fs and IL
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:42:30 -0700
From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
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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