[9fans] Those power-saving USB drives and Plan 9

2011-08-18 Thread Jack Norton
Greetings, I'm shopping around for a 2.5" usb enclosure/drive solution for some cool and quiet backup. I'm reading that lots of these enclosures spin down the disks when they feel like it. Now, this might be more broad than a Plan 9 question, but I'd simply like to know if this is a safe 'fea

Re: [9fans] Help with two small shared file servers

2011-08-18 Thread Lucio De Re
> issuing multiple outstanding > messages is how protocols like aoe, pcie, etc. get speed. writes are posted. > > the question for me is how does one make this easy and natural. one way > is to allow the mnt driver to issue multiple concurrent reads or writes for > the same i/o. another would b

Re: [9fans] Help with two small shared file servers

2011-08-18 Thread erik quanstrom
> > did you do testing at regular lan latencies? what i see on my networks > > is usually <= 30µs. > > > > - erik > > > > I induced latencies similar to those found on the Internet. My tests at LAN > speeds (500us in my sub-optimal setup) had 9P at essentially the same > transfer rate as HTTP. My