Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-17 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 04:11:11PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: I think you missed the point. What I have given is an example, what indeed made me wonder, initially, about a way to simply store definitions as a text file, the relationships between the notions being described by a directory

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-17 Thread Lucio De Re
The getting dot-dot right is precisely the problem that there are multiple paths, and only one is valid for a classical dir tree and you got to follow this one correct path back. Here, this multiplicity is simultaneously valid, and all the paths are the correct answer. The question here is

[9fans] Release CD-ROM won't boot

2012-08-17 Thread Lucio De Re
I haven't checked all possibilities, but perhaps someone here has a quick fix. I'm trying to boot a Plan 9 ISO image from a few weeks back (date indeterminate, right now) under VMware ESXi, but it seems to jam at the PBSR...I prompt (text cursor on the following line). I tried both the primary

Re: [9fans] Release CD-ROM won't boot

2012-08-17 Thread iainws
On Friday, 17 August 2012 20:30:47 UTC+10, Lucio De Re wrote: I haven't checked all possibilities, but perhaps someone here has a quick fix. I'm trying to boot a Plan 9 ISO image from a few weeks back (date indeterminate, right now) under VMware ESXi, but it seems to jam at the

Re: [9fans] Release CD-ROM won't boot

2012-08-17 Thread Lucio De Re
I suggest not using VMware for the installation, but Virtual Box https://www.virtualbox.org/ instead; I've had no issues with installation, and it can be configured quickly. You missed the bit about being 1400 km from the host :-) I'm not sure about SCSI disk errors that seem to be popping up;

Re: [9fans] Release CD-ROM won't boot

2012-08-17 Thread erik quanstrom
I'm 1300 km aways from the server, incidentally. the not-so-virtual virtual machine? - erik

[9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News

2012-08-17 Thread Matthew Veety
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397390 For what it's worth, our beloved operating system is on Hacker News. -- Veety

[9fans] fossil option -m

2012-08-17 Thread arisawa
Helo, Plan 9 manual FOSSIL(4) says about fossil/fossil command option -m: -m Allocate free-memory-percent percent of the avail- able free RAM for buffers. This overrides all other memory sizing parameters, notably the -c option to

Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News

2012-08-17 Thread andrey mirtchovski
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397390 I like presotto's comment.

Re: [9fans] fossil option -m

2012-08-17 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Aug 18 01:04:53 EDT 2012, aris...@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote: Helo, Plan 9 manual FOSSIL(4) says about fossil/fossil command option -m: -m Allocate free-memory-percent percent of the avail- able free RAM for buffers. This overrides all other

Re: [9fans] fossil option -m

2012-08-17 Thread John Floren
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:30 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: On Sat Aug 18 01:04:53 EDT 2012, aris...@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote: Helo, Plan 9 manual FOSSIL(4) says about fossil/fossil command option -m: -m Allocate free-memory-percent percent of the avail-