Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-03 Thread tlaronde
Hello, On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 05:08:52PM -0400, Burton Samograd wrote: > > > Has someone ever played with the notion of a multidimensional filesystem > > David Korn did some research on a 3d file system called 3d: > > David G. Korn, Eduardo Krell, The 3-D File System, pp147-156, USENIX > Conf

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2012-08-03 Thread cinap_lenrek
Recently helped debugging a strange plan9 server problem. The machine being a cpu/auth/file server basicly doing everything from serving http with rc-httpd, accepting mail, serving dns and running a bunch of cronjobs doing various things. the machine is quite busy. It worked quite well for a some

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-03 Thread Burton Samograd
It's automatically added to my mails. Sorry, I forget about it because I don't add it, the mail server does. -Original Message- From: 9fans-boun...@9fans.net [mailto:9fans-boun...@9fans.net] On Behalf Of Kurt H Maier Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 3:13 PM To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-03 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 05:08:52PM -0400, Burton Samograd wrote: > > This e-mail, including accompanying communications and attachments, is > strictly confidential and only for the intended recipient. Any retention, use > or disclosure not expressly authorised by Markit is prohibited. This email

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-03 Thread Burton Samograd
> Has someone ever played with the notion of a multidimensional filesystem David Korn did some research on a 3d file system called 3d: David G. Korn, Eduardo Krell, The 3-D File System, pp147-156, USENIX Conference Proceedings, Summer 1989, Baltimore, MD And also at behind a paywall: http://

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-03 Thread tlaronde
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 11:58:08AM -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > if i understand correctly, this is one way it could be done (i think): > > * built a graph representing the structure > * create a file server that given a graph and a root node, synthesizes > a hierarchy, AND > * on every walk t

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-03 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
if i understand correctly, this is one way it could be done (i think): * built a graph representing the structure * create a file server that given a graph and a root node, synthesizes a hierarchy, AND * on every walk to a node launches a copy of itself with the same graph but the new node as the

[9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-03 Thread tlaronde
Hello, This is mainly a theoretical question. While playing with the representation of mathematical definitions as a file hierarchy (at dot you find a DESC or whatever named file with the description, and the subdirs are simply more restrictive instances of the thing; say : collection -> magma ->

Re: [9fans] Hosted Inferno on Raspberry Pi

2012-08-03 Thread Christian Neukirchen
graham.gallag...@gmail.com (Graham Gallagher) writes: > The gcc flags: -march=armv6 -mfloat-abi=softfp -mfpu=vfp, will let you > compile the standard Inferno emu-g on the Raspberry Pi first go. Not > all the Linux VT interface ioctls are supported by the video driver so > a little work is needed t

Re: [9fans] a strange time stamp

2012-08-03 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Aug 3 10:27:26 EDT 2012, aris...@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote: > Hello, 9fans. > > I noticed a strange time stamp in /n/9fat. > > term% cat /adm/timezone/local; date; touch /tmp/x; ls -l /tmp/x; 9fat:; touch > /n/9fat/x; ls -l /n/9fat/x > JST 32400 JST 32400 > Fri Aug 3 22:55:31 JST 2012 > --

[9fans] a strange time stamp

2012-08-03 Thread arisawa
Hello, 9fans. I noticed a strange time stamp in /n/9fat. term% cat /adm/timezone/local; date; touch /tmp/x; ls -l /tmp/x; 9fat:; touch /n/9fat/x; ls -l /n/9fat/x JST 32400 JST 32400 Fri Aug 3 22:55:31 JST 2012 --rw-rw M 11 arisawa web 0 Aug 3 22:55 /tmp/x --rw-rw-rw- M 95 bill trog 0 Aug

Re: [9fans] Hosted Inferno on Raspberry Pi

2012-08-03 Thread Richard Miller
> Plan9 runs on the rasberry-PI? /n/sources/contrib/miller/9/rpi It's a work in progress - no usb yet, and therefore no keyboard, mouse or ethernet.

Re: [9fans] Hosted Inferno on Raspberry Pi

2012-08-03 Thread Steve Simon
> I've got HDMI video working in Plan 9 too Plan9 runs on the rasberry-PI? -Steve

Re: [9fans] Hosted Inferno on Raspberry Pi

2012-08-03 Thread Richard Miller
> yep, the standard fb mmap code works I've got HDMI video working in Plan 9 too - it turned out to be fairly simple to tell the GPU to set the resolution and divulge the framebuffer address. Putting console output on video frees up the serial port for more interesting purposes ...

Re: [9fans] Hosted Inferno on Raspberry Pi

2012-08-03 Thread Graham Gallagher
> To run inferno in fullscreen mode, would it be feasible to mmap the > framebuffer address into the inferno address space and just write > to it? yep, the standard fb mmap code works but just needs a little tweaking for the input event handling devices and removal of a few unimplemented ioctls

Re: [9fans] Hosted Inferno on Raspberry Pi

2012-08-03 Thread Richard Miller
> Not > all the Linux VT interface ioctls are supported by the video driver so > a little work is needed to incorporate the framebuffer device. To run inferno in fullscreen mode, would it be feasible to mmap the framebuffer address into the inferno address space and just write to it?