Let me make sure I'm not misrepresenting this: I have an external USB drive configured as a Venti device, it is portable to a (small) number of p9p hosts that have been configured to match its characteristics, I'm not sure if I actually verified that Plan 9 Venti can also access it.
I wouldn't recommend that configuration for serious use: first I have at least one hardware error I will eventually need to address and that will take some effort; secondly, active Venti on my 32-bit linux-mint workstation causes shutting down to take tens of minutes - if Venti is not running, shutting down is as normal as one can expect; then there is this vacfs issue - which does not occur if I run vacfs on a Plan 9 workstation, to the very same Venti configuration. Having looked at the USB/SATA hat mentioned here, I confess it is even more tempting. And what looks really dishy would be the PCI/E, 5-device, ROCK-PI only hat which has only one disadvantage: Plan 9 has not (yet?) been ported to the ROCK-PI. Take a look: https://shop.allnetchina.cn/collections/frontpage/products/penta-sata-hat-for-rock-pi-4 seems like a great place to start. Lucio. On 12/21/19, Steven Stallion <sstall...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Steven, I found, on a 32-bit host, that vacfs truncated biggish to big >> files on reading them and Cinap suggested that I should look at >> possible confusion in size_t types versus 32-bit integers. I never got >> around to that, but otherwise, I have also had good service from venti >> on p9p. > > Interesting. I've only used Venti on 64-bit hosts, though I've not > tried using vacfs from Plan 9 from User Space yet. I have a couple of > large imports I pulled in from other file systems (around 30GB > uncompressed), but haven't seen a case yet where data was truncated or > otherwise corrupted when accessed by Plan 9. > >> Not that you need any corroboration from me. > > That's actually great to hear - I had always assumed I was running a > fringe configuration, but it has made offsite backup of the venti > store a much simpler affair than before. > > Cheers, > Steve > ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T1d0010397a54cc60-M208c6cf9cbbcc5a609024dbf Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
