Re: [9fans] boot 9vx from Plan 9 cpu/fileserver

2009-01-07 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/browse_thread/thread/3df541c516a79daa/6ad1abca006414d4?lnk=gstq=mount+9vx+root+from+fileserver#6ad1abca006414d4 Moin, how do I have to call 9vx to get the root from a remote Plan 9 cpu/filserver? Matthias

Re: [9fans] Why do we need syspipe() ?

2009-01-07 Thread Charles Forsyth
the example that prompted the `fish' remark was: cd location; pwd shows location.

Re: [9fans] RFNOMNT and/or least privilege

2009-01-07 Thread sqweek
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Dave Eckhardt davide...@cs.cmu.edu wrote: The web server infrastructure seems pretty focused on running as user none, which makes sense as far as it goes, but I don't want none to be able to read the files served by the web servers because anybody who can log in

Re: [9fans] directly opening Plan9 devices

2009-01-07 Thread ron minnich
The underlying assumption of motivation for this discussion is that jailing (or whatever we want to call it) is somehow a good thing. Given that every CPU we care about comes with virtualization hardware, I just can't see the point of jails -- seems like an idea whose time has gone, kind of like

Re: [9fans] directly opening Plan9 devices

2009-01-07 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Jan 7 11:58:04 EST 2009, rminn...@gmail.com wrote: The underlying assumption of motivation for this discussion is that jailing (or whatever we want to call it) is somehow a good thing. Given that every CPU we care about comes with virtualization hardware, I just can't see the point of

[9fans] Sources vac scores?

2009-01-07 Thread Nathaniel W Filardo
Is the venti backing sources publically readable? Perhaps equally importantly, are the scores of sources dump published anywhere? I ask because I'd like a local copy of the development history, and while I am currently spidering sources' dump, that's going to take a long while and venti/copy -f

[9fans] venti icachewriteproc going past isect

2009-01-07 Thread Oleg Finkelshteyn
hi, i've had this behavior some time ago and haven't solved that, and now Akshat Kumar is experiencing exactly the same, but as the venti at faul is running on his mail server, he's unable to post here. as soon as venti starts, an icachewriteproc can be observed which produces high load, making

Re: [9fans] Changelogs Patches?

2009-01-07 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 18:44 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: a big difference between the decisions is in data integrety. it's much easier to break a fs that rewrites than it is a worm-based fs. True. But there's a grey area here: an FS that *never* rewrites live blocks, but can reclaim

Re: [9fans] Changelogs Patches?

2009-01-07 Thread erik quanstrom
Lets see. May be its my misinterpretation of what venti does. But so far I understand that it boils down to: I give venti a block of any length, it gives me a score back. Now internally, venti might decide just a clarification. this is done by the client. from venti(6): Files and

Re: [9fans] Sources vac scores?

2009-01-07 Thread geoff
No, we don't publish venti scores; that would be very poor security practice. We'll soon be announcing a way to mirror sources with replica, once we've shaken the procedure down. We will then discourage the existing mirroring schemes.

Re: [9fans] Sources vac scores?

2009-01-07 Thread Nathaniel W Filardo
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:37:02PM -0500, ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: No, we don't publish venti scores; that would be very poor security practice. In the general case, yes, absolutely. In the case of the nightly scores for sources/plan9, is it still? AFAICT the entire directory tree

[9fans] cheap, low-resolution terminal

2009-01-07 Thread john
http://csplan9.rit.edu/users/john/plan9vt220-full.jpeg http://csplan9.rit.edu/users/john/plan9vt220-screen.jpeg Just threw this onto my CPU server (yes, mock my slow processor, it was free) and was once again pleased with how easy it is to set stuff up on Plan 9. Just one line in plan9.ini and

Re: [9fans] cheap, low-resolution terminal

2009-01-07 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:10 PM, j...@csplan9.rit.edu wrote: http://csplan9.rit.edu/users/john/plan9vt220-full.jpeg http://csplan9.rit.edu/users/john/plan9vt220-screen.jpeg Just threw this onto my CPU server (yes, mock my slow processor, it was free) and was once again pleased with how easy

Re: [9fans] cheap, low-resolution terminal

2009-01-07 Thread john
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:10 PM, j...@csplan9.rit.edu wrote: http://csplan9.rit.edu/users/john/plan9vt220-full.jpeg http://csplan9.rit.edu/users/john/plan9vt220-screen.jpeg Just threw this onto my CPU server (yes, mock my slow processor, it was free) and was once again pleased with how easy

Re: [9fans] directly opening Plan9 devices

2009-01-07 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:16 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@coraid.com wrote: On Wed Jan 7 11:58:04 EST 2009, rminn...@gmail.com wrote: The underlying assumption of motivation for this discussion is that jailing (or whatever we want to call it) is somehow a good thing. Given that every CPU we

Re: [9fans] cheap, low-resolution terminal

2009-01-07 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
Just one line in plan9.ini and I was rocking. I'll have to break out my amber-screen vt420 and give it a try. Probably not terribly useful w/o a mouse, though! :) winmail.dat

Re: [9fans] cheap, low-resolution terminal

2009-01-07 Thread john
Just one line in plan9.ini and I was rocking. I'll have to break out my amber-screen vt420 and give it a try. Probably not terribly useful w/o a mouse, though! :) If somebody (not necessarily me) was to put interrupt functionality into rc, you could basically experience 70s UNIX

Re: [9fans] cheap, low-resolution terminal

2009-01-07 Thread blstuart
Just one line in plan9.ini and I was rocking. I'll have to break out my amber-screen vt420 and give it a try. Probably not terribly useful w/o a mouse, though! :) But it's not bad as the console of a file server. My vt220 is on an RS232 switch so it can be the console of a couple of