[9fans] Datakit documentation

2010-03-09 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
I've been googling around looking for documentation on Datakit, but surprisingly I've been unable to find much other than vague anecdotes about the existance of the network itself (and the 2004 discussion on 9fans). What I'm mostly interested in are the network protocols and the routing and a

Re: [9fans] Datakit documentation

2010-03-09 Thread Steve Simon
This is the paper contains detail of the low level protocol. I have a paper copy but due to moving house that is out of reach for quite a while. A. G. Fraser, "Early Experiment with Asynchronous Time Division Networks", IEEE Networks, pp. 12-26, Jan. 1993. -Steve

Re: [9fans] sheevaplug port available

2010-03-09 Thread Graham Gallagher
> but i think inferno's logfs and ftl both assume 512 byte pages instead > of 2048 byte pages that the sheevaplugs nand flash has (though it has > writable subpages of 512 bytes), so i'm not sure how hard/easy an fs on > it will be. Some NAND flash definitions: block = smallest erasable unit page

Re: [9fans] sheevaplug port available

2010-03-09 Thread Axel Belinfante
On Mar 8, 2010, at 16:42 , Mechiel Lukkien wrote: does plan 9 have a writable nand flash file system that does wear- leveling and such? could that be among the code for the bitsy? Axel.

Re: [9fans] sheevaplug port available

2010-03-09 Thread Graham Gallagher
>> does plan 9 have a writable nand flash file system that does wear-leveling >> and such? > > could that be among the code for the bitsy? The Bitsy does it all for NOR flash but sadly NAND flash is more problematic. NAND flash is cheap and easy for the hardware guys (and consumers) but it's a rea

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2010-03-09 Thread Patrick Kelly
POSIX is a standard in which hardly anyone actually adheres too. AIX POSIX is not Solaris POSIX is not Linux POSIX etc. What good is a standard that isn't truthfully standardised. Alas I will say that POSIX does add quite a bit more cross platfom conformity than some other... things... but there a

Re: [9fans] Aquarela faulting

2010-03-09 Thread cinap_lenrek
just got a aquarela crash when trying to mount it from windows xp. w2k worked fine. the offending code (with fix) was this: /n/dump/2010/0307/sys/src/cmd/aquarela/smbcomsessionsetupandx.c:119,124 - smbcomsessionsetupandx.c:119,130 smbseterror(s, ERRSRV, ERRbadpw);