Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

2016-10-12 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
Hi ! Rip is good for running terminal. It do not have modern (and old :) ) interfaces to storage. I'm use old big tower PC, with several hard drives. I think Eric or Brantkey can tell more, as he still run Kfs. (Cwfs) среда, 12 октября 2016 г. пользователь Tyga написал: > Hi Jim, > > I think you

Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

2016-10-12 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
Sorry, for misspelling(iOS trying to "help" me) Rpi and Brantley I meant. среда, 12 октября 2016 г. пользователь Sergey Zhilkin написал: > Hi ! > > Rip is good for running terminal. It do not have modern (and old :) ) > interfaces to storage. I'm use old big tower PC, with several hard drives. >

Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

2016-10-12 Thread Richard Miller
> I was wondering whether or not it'd be feasible to hook up something > like http://tinyurl.com/jgov5gc (Amazon.com) to something small like a > Raspberry Pi 3, or if the I/O would be too much for that kind of > computer to handle. Probably feasible but it is likely to be slow, because Plan 9's u

Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

2016-10-12 Thread Steven Stallion
Hi James, My fileserver is an older Intel Atom D525. I have a pair of mirrored SSDs installed for fossil and my venti store is served by plan9ports running on a CentOS machine with ample storage. I also have a small SATADOM installed for my 9fat partition, which makes it easy to recover if^H^Hwhen

Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

2016-10-12 Thread California Electric
Jim, There are other low cost alternatives than an rpi. Higher kilowatt-hour cost for sure than an rpi, but cheap... My current 32bit bell labs distro file server is a Lenovo (IBM) m58p small form factor. It has a 3.33 ghz intel core2 duo cpu, upgraded from it's stock 3.0ghz core2 duo. I have

Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

2016-10-12 Thread Steve Simon
mine is a dual atom mini itx box, with two mirrored disks - though i have an ssd to add when i get a chance. the server is a combined auth/cpu/venti/fossil/mail/domain/web server. it consumes 26watts which could be better but is not bad. a pi with a few sata3 interfaces would be interesting. -

Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

2016-10-12 Thread James A. Robinson
Ha, looks familiar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherDrive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherDrive#/media/File:EtherDriveCluster.JPG Very neat, thank you for the description. But it's probably a bit more than I can fit into my closet. :-P On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:31 AM Brantley Coile wro

Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

2016-10-12 Thread Brantley Coile
:) You would be a popular with your significant other as I was with my wife when I had a PDP-11 in the living room. > On Oct 12, 2016, at 6:38 PM, James A. Robinson wrote: > > Ha, looks familiar: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherDrive > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherDrive#/media/Fi

[9fans] 3D graphics as a filesystem

2016-10-12 Thread Chris McGee
Hello All, I am looking at the specs for a GPU and was thinking about something analogous to /dev/draw, but for 3D graphics. Kind of like OpenGL except exposed as a filesystem so that it is network mountable and programmed in any language (even rc). Does anyone know if this kind of thing has b

Re: [9fans] 3D graphics as a filesystem

2016-10-12 Thread James A. Robinson
I wonder if the Inferno guys did anything like that. There was a youtube video from John Floren talking about his work replacing Java w/ Inferno on an Android phone and I think he mentioned some ideas he had consider w/re to driving graphics using a 9p interface. On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 4:03 PM,

Re: [9fans] 3D graphics as a filesystem

2016-10-12 Thread Jules Merit
Yeah I prototyped draw3d with 9vx driver to host GPU on Linux system. MesajGL if 9p file exists it supports mode of that name to transfer to gpu. It helps if you have DooM handy to try writing it in rc. On Oct 12, 2016 4:06 PM, "Chris McGee" wrote: > Hello All, > > I am looking at the specs for

Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

2016-10-12 Thread Jules Merit
What happens when you loose the auth server? On Oct 12, 2016 3:41 PM, "Brantley Coile" wrote: > :) > > You would be a popular with your significant other as I was with my wife > when I had a PDP-11 in the living room. > > > On Oct 12, 2016, at 6:38 PM, James A. Robinson > wrote: > > > > Ha, loo

Re: [9fans] 3D graphics as a filesystem

2016-10-12 Thread Stanley Lieber
"James A. Robinson" wrote: >I wonder if the Inferno guys did anything like that. > >There was a youtube video from John Floren talking about his work >replacing >Java w/ Inferno on an Android phone and I think he mentioned some ideas >he >had consider w/re to driving graphics using a 9p interface

Re: [9fans] 3D graphics as a filesystem

2016-10-12 Thread Chris McGee
Cool. Do you have any code that you can share for that? What does the file protocol look like? > On Oct 12, 2016, at 7:17 PM, Jules Merit > wrote: > > Yeah I prototyped draw3d with 9vx driver to host GPU on Linux system. MesajGL > if 9p file exists it supports mode of that name to transfer to

Re: [9fans] 3D graphics as a filesystem

2016-10-12 Thread Andrew Nazarov
Chris, if you find something interesting, please share the knowledge. A few days ago I asked to myself the same question, but Google didn't help me much. On 13 October 2016 at 02:47, Chris McGee wrote: > Cool. Do you have any code that you can share for that? What does the file > protocol look l