Re: [9fans] External HDD over USB

2009-02-08 Thread erik quanstrom
> 2009/2/6 erik quanstrom : > > are you running usb/disk as the host owner (eve)? > > > > oh, *eve* -- yes, I've tried as eve also, with the same > results. hostowner, after /dev/hostowner, and eve, after the kernel variable name, refer to the same thing. eve is "" until set by factotum -S (cpus

Re: [9fans] FileServer grid

2009-02-08 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Sorry Uriel... I was meaning that I wouldn't be able to download it. BTW my main problem is to know if, in a grid of plan 9 fileservers, there could be any kind of replication, keeping files reachable when a node goes down. Giacomo On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Uriel wrote: > The link is

Re: [9fans] FileServer grid

2009-02-08 Thread ron minnich
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Giacomo Tesio wrote: > BTW my main problem is to know if, in a grid of plan 9 fileservers, there > could be any kind of replication, keeping files reachable when a node goes > down. This sort of thing was done to death IIRC in the 80s. It was dropped for a while

Re: [9fans] /net different from sockets, but better?

2009-02-08 Thread J.R. Mauro
Since I'm new here, hi everyone! On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Rahul Murmuria wrote: > I am planning on porting the /net concept of Plan9 to Linux. > I've been thinking about this for a few months. If you'd like help, let me know, I'd be more than happy to pitch in. > My Plan: > Use libfs[1]

Re: [9fans] /net different from sockets, but better?

2009-02-08 Thread Rahul Murmuria
Hello Eric! On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > > I may have some existing code based on npfs that you can use as a > base. I asked a friend about npfs. Well, you are probably using v9fs, and you are wrapping over sockets. Not what I intend to do, but like you said, it c

[9fans] UPAS, IMAP, and SMTP

2009-02-08 Thread Akshat Kumar
Using upas/fs -f /imaps/imap.gmail.com I can access my GMail Inbox. The mail structure is posted in /mail/fs/mbox However, there may be local mail as well as other labels (i.e., folders) in GMail that I would want to access -- it seems that specifying a new folder at GMail, i.e., upas -f /imaps/i

Re: [9fans] UPAS, IMAP, and SMTP

2009-02-08 Thread erik quanstrom
> Using upas/fs -f /imaps/imap.gmail.com I can access my GMail > Inbox. The mail structure is posted in /mail/fs/mbox > However, there may be local mail as well as other labels (i.e., folders) > in GMail that I would want to access -- it seems that specifying > a new folder at GMail, i.e., > upas