[9fans] file server design documentation

2012-12-21 Thread steve
hi, I writing another non-disc file server after a gap of a few years and am making mistakes. is there a written spec of how its supposed to work? For example: the initial stat of a zero length name should return the Dir of the root dir. and a walk up to the root directory tells mount driver

Re: [9fans] ape/errno.h

2012-12-21 Thread Jeff Sickel
Given all the Plan 9 spinoffs that still include APE, it might be worth the effort at some point to bring APE up to SUSv3 or SUSv4 to ease in porting code that's heavily POSIX-dependent. Though there might not be enough time or energy to take on such an endeavor. -jas On Dec 18, 2012, at 2:02

Re: [9fans] ape/errno.h

2012-12-21 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Dec 21 13:38:20 EST 2012, j...@corpus-callosum.com wrote: Given all the Plan 9 spinoffs that still include APE, it might be worth the effort at some point to bring APE up to SUSv3 or SUSv4 to ease in porting code that's heavily POSIX-dependent. Though there might not be enough time or

Re: [9fans] file server design documentation

2012-12-21 Thread Gorka Guardiola
I normally use a combination of running iostats and ramfs with debugging and reading again and again intro(5). HTH. G. On Dec 21, 2012, at 7:23 PM, steve st...@quintile.net wrote: hi, I writing another non-disc file server after a gap of a few years and am making mistakes. is there a

Re: [9fans] ape/errno.h

2012-12-21 Thread tlaronde
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:38:01PM -0600, Jeff Sickel wrote: Given all the Plan 9 spinoffs that still include APE, it might be worth the effort at some point to bring APE up to SUSv3 or SUSv4 to ease in porting code that's heavily POSIX-dependent. Though there might not be enough time or

Re: [9fans] file server design documentation

2012-12-21 Thread Nemo
IIRC, I think I wrote something about that in the 9.intro book. But it's likely you already know all that's written there and you want more details… On Dec 21, 2012, at 7:23 PM, steve st...@quintile.net wrote: hi, I writing another non-disc file server after a gap of a few years and am

Re: [9fans] file server design documentation

2012-12-21 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
I like to 1+ this comment :) On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Gorka Guardiola pau...@gmail.com wrote: I normally use a combination of running iostats and ramfs with debugging and reading again and again intro(5). HTH. G. On Dec 21, 2012, at 7:23 PM, steve st...@quintile.net wrote: hi,