Re: [9fans] simple venti demo:

2011-08-12 Thread Wes Kussmaul
On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 12:18 -0400, Russ Cox wrote: > i call this 'ventino'. Shouldn't it be 'ventina'? Venti seems feminine.

Re: [9fans] looking for advice for network setup

2011-08-12 Thread Steve Simon
this is my script to do this, runs on the machine behind the firewall (larch) and connects to the default file server. #!/bin/rc while(){ cpu -c 'rm -f /srv/larch ; srvfs larch /mnt/term ; while() sleep 600 '>[2] /dev/null sleep 6 }

Re: [9fans] Access through NAT

2011-08-12 Thread Charles Forsyth
>As mentioned elsewhere, beware assinine five minute state timeouts in >the NAT implementation. with the new Netgear supplied by my cable company, I discovered (on a forum) that switching off a supposed security option to do some form of packet inspection had the pleasant effect of eliminating

[9fans] Access through NAT

2011-08-12 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
If you port forward the ticket port to your auth server and the exportfs port to your CPU server, you should be able to 'import nathost ...' from the wilds of the Internet. As mentioned elsewhere, beware assinine five minute state timeouts in the NAT implementation. Push aan onto the connec

Re: [9fans] Intel atom system

2011-08-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> We tried a Zotac IONITX-G-E board here but found that it didn't work > with Plan 9... I don't remember what the problem was, probably either > the ethernet or the SATA controller (the usual suspects). both of those should work, i would think you'd have trouble with the crappy mp mappings, etc.

Re: [9fans] Intel atom system

2011-08-12 Thread John Floren
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Ruckdashel wrote: > i'm looking at building a system to get my plan9 tinkering out of VMs. > I'm looking at using a zotac Ionitx-t-u mobo with a sata ssd. I'm > curious if any one has tried this mobo. I'm trying to avoid having > another linux box lying around. > >

Re: [9fans] simple venti demo:

2011-08-12 Thread Russ Cox
i call this 'ventino'. it's a tiny venti that keeps the whole index in memory, backed by a text file. i have not used it in a while (the file is dated may 25, 2009) but hey, it's a working venti server in 329 lines of code. #include #include #include #include #include #include #include ty

Re: [9fans] looking for advice for network setup

2011-08-12 Thread Anthony Sorace
> What it may be? A connection lose? that'd be my first guess. it is, unfortunately, not uncommon for routers which do NAT (and some corporate firewalls) to close idle connections on you. i used to have a cron script that ran on the NATed system, cpu'd in, did the postroot, and then hung around ru

Re: [9fans] simple venti demo:

2011-08-12 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:50 AM, dexen deVries wrote: > Venti would make a great backend for Git. I guess you could do this; it'd be interesting to do something more in keeping with the Unix model than git is. Create repo: dd -if etc. etc. checkout unvac commit vac etc. compare two trees:

Re: [9fans] looking for advice for network setup

2011-08-12 Thread Roman Salmin
> > [1] /n/sources/contrib/anothy/bin/rc/postroot > [2] /n/sources/contrib/anothy/bin/rc/tun > > Thank you. That is really helps. I learned about srv(3) and now understand mine misconception. I tested it all at work from NATed kvm and it all works. But I have problem when tried postroot fro

Re: [9fans] Intel atom system

2011-08-12 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Aug 12 04:53:43 EDT 2011, steve.ruckdas...@gmail.com wrote: > i'm looking at building a system to get my plan9 tinkering out of VMs. > I'm looking at using a zotac Ionitx-t-u mobo with a sata ssd. I'm > curious if any one has tried this mobo. I'm trying to avoid having > another linux box ly

Re: [9fans] Fossil fs recovery

2011-08-12 Thread David du Colombier
> How much RAM needs the Fossil+Venti Fileserver in total? For both Fossil and Venti, the default, in Plan 9, is to use 20% of total user memory. These values are defined in /sys/src/9/boot/local.c. The minimum required memory is something like 1 MB for Fossil and 45 MB for Venti. Venti have thr

Re: [9fans] Fossil fs recovery

2011-08-12 Thread Bernd Maier
Many thanks! I will try it this weekend. One additional question: How much RAM needs the Fossil+Venti Fileserver in total? -Bernd On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:11:27 +0200 David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com> wrote: >In fact, it's pretty straightforward. > >In the following example, I consider you h

Re: [9fans] Intel atom system

2011-08-12 Thread Bernd Maier
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:42:01 +0200 Ruckdashel wrote: >i'm looking at building a system to get my plan9 tinkering out of >VMs. >I'm looking at using a zotac Ionitx-t-u mobo with a sata ssd. I'm >curious if any one has tried this mobo. I'm trying to avoid having >another linux box lying around.

[9fans] Intel atom system

2011-08-12 Thread Ruckdashel
i'm looking at building a system to get my plan9 tinkering out of VMs. I'm looking at using a zotac Ionitx-t-u mobo with a sata ssd. I'm curious if any one has tried this mobo. I'm trying to avoid having another linux box lying around.

Re: [9fans] simple venti demo:

2011-08-12 Thread dexen deVries
On Thursday 11 of August 2011 18:15:09 ron minnich wrote: > Could we make little venti files and finally try to build an SCM using > these files? Venti would make a great backend for Git. I believe Git's commit and tree format are simple enough to be re-implemented, if porting proves to be too b