Re: [9fans] fake tty or other trick?

2011-12-30 Thread Charles Forsyth
/sys/src/ape/cmd/pdksh/tty.c just #ifdef's out the need for /dev/tty there once was a ptyfs in ape, but it seems to have vanished

Re: [9fans] Intel X4500 Integrated Graphics support

2011-12-30 Thread erik quanstrom
sorry for the slow response. vacation. i'll try to look at this today. but my time is being consumed by a puppy, so my bandwidth might be poor. one thing i notice is that there are two different video devices. that's kind of wierd. - erik

Re: [9fans] p9p vac/vacfs compatibility: uid/gid, ctime, 9P2000.L, 9pserve

2011-12-30 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 4:48 PM, David du Colombier 0in...@gmail.com wrote: Forget about 9p2000.u, it's deprecated. Who decided that .u is deprecated? I definitely didn't and I am using it for all my file servers that are supposed to work on Unix. Thanks, Lucho

Re: [9fans] p9p vac/vacfs compatibility: uid/gid, ctime, 9P2000.L, 9pserve

2011-12-30 Thread David du Colombier
Who decided that .u is deprecated? I definitely didn't and I am using it for all my file servers that are supposed to work on Unix. Sorry, I mean the plan9port support for 9p2000.u is deprecated. It was removed in december 2010. -- David du Colombier

[9fans] (no subject)

2011-12-30 Thread erik quanstrom
It might be a bit much for home use, but if I had a little bit of a budget I'd use Coraid's AoE stuff as the basis for my storage. Yeah, it's pretty overkill. I've previously worked at a storage company as a file system guy and now I have at home a nice array with ZFS on top. It

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2011-12-30 Thread Jack Norton
On 12/30/2011 12:08 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: It might be a bit much for home use, but if I had a little bit of a budget I'd use Coraid's AoE stuff as the basis for my storage. Yeah, it's pretty overkill. I've previously worked at a storage company as a file system guy and now I have at home

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2011-12-30 Thread erik quanstrom
I don't think he was implying that one needed the other. In any case I figured I would ask -- are there any plans for a small scale AoE appliance from coraid? Didn't there used to be a single drive AoE kit long ago? there was once a single drive pata unit. What is the list's

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2011-12-30 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
aoe doesn't require solaris, or any other operating system. you can use it directly with a plan 9 file server, as i do. Of course AoE doesn't require much, my comment was in the context of Coraid's hardware appliance. I don't have much use for AoE at home. At one point I used it to network

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2011-12-30 Thread Bakul Shah
My fileserver is running freebsd zfs. Basically one machine for nfs, venti, cifs, timemachine + sundry other services. This has worked well since 2005. Initially I used h/w raid under zfs. This was a mistake, forcibly corrected when my machine died. Now I use raidz. Since then I have replaced

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2011-12-30 Thread erik quanstrom
I don't have much use for AoE at home. At one point I used it to network boot machines, but I only have laptops now, which have local disks because I need to use them disconnected from the network sometimes. I need a higher level protocol like 9p or venti, and I'd rather have a single

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2011-12-30 Thread Charles Forsyth
Could you do the latter without taking the machine down? On 30 December 2011 21:28, Bakul Shah ba...@bitblocks.com wrote: Since then I have replaced disks with much bigger disks without taking the machine down, upgraded the os zpool/zfs versions a couple of times

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2011-12-30 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
Charles Forsyth wrote: Since then I have replaced disks with much bigger disks without taking the machine down, upgraded the os zpool/zfs versions a couple of times Could you do the latter without taking the machine down? Upgrade zpool/zfs version yes, os, no. -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2011-12-30 Thread Jack Norton
On 12/30/2011 3:05 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: Does the Coraid applience implement RAID in hardware or does it use fs(3) or another software solution? if a coraid appliance were pcie-attached rather than ethernet attached, would you still ask this question? do you think the block diagram of

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2011-12-30 Thread Bakul Shah
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:34:39 GMT Charles Forsyth charles.fors...@gmail.com wrote: Could you do the latter without taking the machine down? On 30 December 2011 21:28, Bakul Shah ba...@bitblocks.com wrote: Since then I have replaced disks with much bigger disks without taking the

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2011-12-30 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
zpool/zfs upgrade? Yes. Don't recall if I had to reboot afterwards. You don't. -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2011-12-30 Thread Charles Forsyth
That's upgrading the stored formats, not the in-kernel(?) software support for a particular version? On 30 December 2011 21:56, Aram Hăvărneanu ara...@mgk.ro wrote: zpool/zfs upgrade? Yes. Don't recall if I had to reboot afterwards. You don't. -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2011-12-30 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2011-12-30, at 14:41 PM, Charles Forsyth wrote: That's upgrading the stored formats, Yes. signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2011-12-30 Thread erik quanstrom
if a coraid appliance were pcie-attached rather than ethernet attached, would you still ask this question?  do you think the block diagram of coraid hardware looks fundamentally different than the block diagram of a raid card? It's just curiosity. I know the appliance is Plan 9 based.