[9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-13 Thread Jim Habegger
We have three Windows laptops in our family. I've been using free software systems off and on for years. Last week I learned about Plan 9 from Bell Labs, from someone in a Linux Questions forum. Now I have it installed on a partition on my laptop, along with XP, Ubuntu-on-NTFS, Debian, and Slackwar

Re: [9fans] extensions of "interest"

2009-04-13 Thread dave . l
Is it? It's probably a statistical certainty based on 9-fans being a fairly fixed-size group, which it does seem to be and human beings being remarkably similar in their ability to forget things. Max kudos to Russ as usual for spotting it. Let's wait another approx 4 years less 3 weeks and see

Re: [9fans] fossil 'halt' command?

2009-04-13 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Apr 13 18:55:24 EDT 2009, fors...@terzarima.net wrote: > i'd have thought that soft updates ensure consistency, > but a halt command ensures that all the changes are actually written. i think your point is a good one and definately true (and begs the question of disk caches), but given the

[9fans] GSoC status

2009-04-13 Thread Anthony Sorace
Folks: GSoC progresses well. We have a preliminary slot allocation which should be finalized on wednesday. The list of accepted student proposals comes out a week from today. We're having a mentors meeting tomorrow to resolve any internal conflicts, and there's a GSoC-wide meeting for admins to res

Re: [9fans] fossil 'halt' command?

2009-04-13 Thread Charles Forsyth
i'd have thought that soft updates ensure consistency, but a halt command ensures that all the changes are actually written.

[9fans] fossil 'halt' command?

2009-04-13 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
Hi, extract from the fossil paper: The block cache uses soft updates [1] to ensure that the on-disk file system is always self-consistent. Thus there is no halt console command and no need to check a file system that was shut down without halting. Fossil does have a halt command and does often