[9fans] [plan9mod] Query regarding venti scores

2009-02-06 Thread anoop . anoop
Hello All, I have a query regarding the scores in venti. Here is my question: Since the venti scores are SHA-1 hashes, can they be considered as UUIDs? I have two different venti servers and am storing different sets of databolcks on each. I am wondering whether a scenario will arise where server

Re: [9fans] [plan9mod] Query regarding venti scores

2009-02-06 Thread 23hiro
With today's amount of storage the probability of a collision is too low for that to happen. I read that in the Venti paper[1]. I would not consider them UUIDs though, since the same data blocks will have the same sha-1 hash on both servers. If that doesn't cause a problem you're fine [1]

[9fans] nupas mk install bug

2009-02-06 Thread matt
mk install ... snip ... cp 8.out /386/bin/nupas/Mail cp: can't create /386/bin/nupas/Mail: '/386/bin/nupas' does not exist works ok when I access my Courier server but aborts on nupas/fs/fs.c:157 when I access the imap version of http://fastmail.fm/ I've tried it on two mailboxes, it does

Re: [9fans] nupas mk install bug

2009-02-06 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Feb 6 09:17:01 EST 2009, mattmob...@proweb.co.uk wrote: mk install ... snip ... cp 8.out /386/bin/nupas/Mail cp: can't create /386/bin/nupas/Mail: '/386/bin/nupas' does not exist i may be wrong, but that is intentional. i don't know of other plan 9 programs that make their own bin

Re: [9fans] [plan9mod] Query regarding venti scores

2009-02-06 Thread erik quanstrom
that doesn't directly address their suitability as UUIDs. it seems like an odd choice to me (certainly it's an expensive way of generating them), although i guess it depends what your application is. sha-1 is a standard uuid format. since a uuid is 16 bytes and sha-1 is 20, there should be

Re: [9fans] nupas mk install bug

2009-02-06 Thread erik quanstrom
when I access the imap version of http://fastmail.fm/ I've tried it on two mailboxes, it does this command 9x4 uid fetch 1:* (uid rfc822.size internaldate) then fails parsing the repsonses thanks for the bug report. i signed up for fastmail.fm to figure out what's going on. there were two

[9fans] Handling of other Dir.mode bits

2009-02-06 Thread Anthony Sorace
Dir.mode has several bits that don't seem to be defined. Should the protocol be read that optimally conforming clients and servers should pass through the bits, or set them to 0? Aside from the obvious risk of future collisions, is there anything that makes using these bits unsafe? No, this isn't

[9fans] Ethernet drivers

2009-02-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
Is a D-Link DL10038D supported by the RTL8139 drivers? Are they essentially the same thing? Has anyone tried it? Thanks, ak

Re: [9fans] Ethernet drivers

2009-02-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
DL10038D is a success by RTL 8139 drivers on Plan 9. Took it off of a dying computer -- a good hardware investment (though a poor replacement for my Broadcom). yay! ak

Re: [9fans] Ethernet drivers

2009-02-06 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Akshat Kumar aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote: Is a D-Link DL10038D supported by the RTL8139 drivers? Are they essentially the same thing? Has anyone tried it? do you have one or are you preparing to buy one? ron

Re: [9fans] Ethernet drivers

2009-02-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
2009/2/6 ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com: do you have one or are you preparing to buy one? ron Ah, so the situation was that I have a Broadcom on my workstation, and there are no drivers for it on Plan 9. But there are drivers for the RTL8139, and an old box that's just been brought down to

[9fans] FileServer grid

2009-02-06 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Hello every one... In a context of really heavy load and high availability needs, I'm evaluating plan 9 to implement a fileserver grid to be used by a web server for temporary storage (session's serializations, for example). I'd like to build a Plan 9 grid exposing a unique filesystem mounted by

Re: [9fans] FileServer grid

2009-02-06 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 23:26 +0100, Giacomo Tesio wrote: Hello every one... In a context of really heavy load and high availability needs, I'm evaluating plan 9 to implement a fileserver grid to be used by a web server for temporary storage (session's serializations, for example). What OS do

Re: [9fans] FileServer grid

2009-02-06 Thread erik quanstrom
Hello every one... In a context of really heavy load and high availability needs, I'm evaluating plan 9 to implement a fileserver grid to be used by a web server for temporary storage (session's serializations, for example). I'd like to build a Plan 9 grid exposing a unique filesystem

Re: [9fans] sed crash

2009-02-06 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 04:13:46PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: it would be much preferable to put the pgp stuff in its own mime part, as many mail readers do. X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail d55 (v55, Leopard) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) and his mailer (plugin) can do so - if it is configured

[9fans] live cd

2009-02-06 Thread erik quanstrom
does anyone have handy the disk/mk9660 arguments used to create the plan 9 live cd? it seems that -9j is not quite right. - erik

Re: [9fans] live cd

2009-02-06 Thread Russ Cox
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:17 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: does anyone have handy the disk/mk9660 arguments used to create the plan 9 live cd? it seems that -9j is not quite right. /sys/lib/dist/mkfile russ

Re: [9fans] live cd

2009-02-06 Thread erik quanstrom
thanks, russ. i'm not sure why 9660srv without the -9 sorry. misfired. - erik

Re: [9fans] live cd

2009-02-06 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:17 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: does anyone have handy the disk/mk9660 arguments used to create the plan 9 live cd? it seems that -9j is not quite right. /sys/lib/dist/mkfile russ thanks, russ. i'm not sure why 9660srv without the -9 flag

[9fans] troff clock hack

2009-02-06 Thread erik quanstrom
i saw a clock face that looked something like this some time ago. but in the original a few of the places were out of form and for some reason, i had to fix it. build with eval `{doctype clock.ms}|clock.ps lp -m.9 -dstdout it took impressively little code and , due to the wonders of pic

[9fans] /net different from sockets, but better?

2009-02-06 Thread Rahul Murmuria
I am planning on porting the /net concept of Plan9 to Linux. My Plan: Use libfs[1] to write a synthetic filesystem in Linux, much like securityfs[2], or /proc. This libfs based code will make calls to the TCP/IP stack on the linux, and basically be an alternative to the Linux kernel sockets. As a

[9fans] External HDD over USB

2009-02-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
This is a Seagate FreeAgent. term% usb/disk usb/disk: initialisation: permission denied usb/disk: statuscmd: fd out of range or not open usb/disk: statuscmd: fd out of range or not open usb/disk: statuscmd: fd out of range or not open usbscsi: write cmd: fd out of range or not open usb/disk:

Re: [9fans] External HDD over USB

2009-02-06 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Feb 6 23:08:59 EST 2009, aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote: This is a Seagate FreeAgent. term% usb/disk usb/disk: initialisation: permission denied usb/disk: statuscmd: fd out of range or not open usb/disk: statuscmd: fd out of range or not open usb/disk: statuscmd: fd out of range

Re: [9fans] External HDD over USB

2009-02-06 Thread akumar
I've tried running it as glenda and another user I've created. Same results. On 06/02/2009, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: On Fri Feb 6 23:08:59 EST 2009, aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote: This is a Seagate FreeAgent. term% usb/disk usb/disk: initialisation: permission