Re: [9fans] Fossil+Venti on Linux

2008-05-25 Thread erik quanstrom
> You could adapt Plan B's bns to fail over between different FSs. But... > We learned that although you can let he FS fail over nicely, many other > things stand in the way making it unnecessary to fail over. For example, > on Plan 9, cs and dns have problems after a fail over, your IP address > m

Re: [9fans] Fossil+Venti on Linux

2008-05-25 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
> I believe the Plan B folks did some work with fail-over (amongst other > things) that might be applicable. Beyond that, if you want to get what you You could adapt Plan B's bns to fail over between different FSs. But... We learned that although you can let he FS fail over nicely, many other thin

Re: [9fans] printing fom plan9 to OKI5900dn

2008-05-25 Thread Rudolf Sykora
2008/5/19 Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have spent some time trying to figure out the working configuration for > > being able to print on a network (postscript) printer oki5900dn. > > I know its IP address. > > > > But I haven't succeeded so far. > > > > I prepared a PS file, say a.ps. > >

Re: [9fans] Fossil+Venti on Linux

2008-05-25 Thread a
I'm not running Linux, but I've run venti+fossil on Mac OS X for testing. I intend to use venti there regularly once I figure out how to get OS X to let me get at a raw partition that isn't mounted (anyone?). I don't think venti+fossil will do what you're looking for, however, at least not without

[9fans] Fossil+Venti on Linux

2008-05-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, is anyone already running venti+fossil on Linux ? I've got several machines, where I need an remote backup (via DSL link) with a few days living snapshots. Ideally the backup should be directly accessible, so when one machine goes down a while, the backup one can take over. The vent