From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:35:16 -0400 From: Russ Cox To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [9fans] plan9port update - venti and backups Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6ab1a1d2-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I worked through a few months of Plan 9 from User Space changes over the last week. Many new things in CVS and also in the web tarball. The main new thing is a revised venti(8) server which should be significantly faster than the Plan 9 one. Eventually this code will become the venti(8) server for Plan 9 itself. Also included is a new venti application, vbackup(8), which stores disk image-based backups to a venti server and presents them via a loopback NFS server. Like everything else in plan9port, venti and vbackup have been tested mainly on Linux and FreeBSD. Unlike on Plan 9, venti is fully documented with a suite of man pages describing not only the server but the system in general, the protocol, and the library. The tree should compile cleanly on Mac OS X 10.4 now. Hopefully I haven't broken support for earlier OS X versions. Running on SunOS is a continuing challenge. Maybe it's a little easier now. Feel free to send me patches to make life better for SunOS users (they deserve it, the poor things!) or for other architectures. Various other things have been tweaked or stirred around. See the CHANGES file for details. Russ http://swtch.com/plan9port http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man7/venti.html http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man8/vbackup.html http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/CHANGES