Re: [9fans] information about filesystems

2010-08-26 Thread erik quanstrom
> kenfs: > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/fs/fs.pdf > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/who/seanq/cw.pdf > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/4/fs there are some other man pages for ken's fs, too. the versions i have are a bit different than the sources versions http://www.q

Re: [9fans] information about filesystems

2010-08-26 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
This write-up would make an excellent wiki page, "File System Comparison" perhaps. Erik's additional notes should probably be included, or perhaps put in a separate kenfs page. I could make the pages if desired. On 13 Aug 2010, at 5:31 pm, Steve Simon wrote: kfs is a simple, non-backed up

Re: [9fans] information about filesystems

2010-08-13 Thread erik quanstrom
> is there any source where I could read about differences between kfs > and fossil (also I heard about something like cwfs), about reasons why > fossil was designed and superceded, when to use which and alike? steve's summary is excellent. a few more words about my favorite, ken's fs the "worm"

Re: [9fans] information about filesystems

2010-08-13 Thread Rudolf Sykora
thanks for pointers! R

Re: [9fans] information about filesystems

2010-08-13 Thread Steve Simon
kfs is a simple, non-backed up filesystem designed for stand alone machines kenfs is the older main file server, it runs stand alone on a single machine and can use either magnetic disks or WORM disks and provides access to previous backups online. it supports a narrower range of hardware than the