Re: [9fans] Regenerating Venti Index Sections?

2008-04-22 Thread a
// Is it possible for me to reconstruct the index section? Yes. See venti-fmt(8). If you want to stop here, you can try checkindex first, and if that doesn't work for you, go to buildindex. // Will the Venti be able to run without it? No, you need an index. The bloom filter is the only optional

Re: [9fans] Regenerating Venti Index Sections?

2008-04-22 Thread Adrian Tritschler
Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: Hi, I have a ~5GB Venti which had run for some time with one 256MB Index Section; recently, the Index Section became corrupted. The Arenas are intact. I was using plan9port's Venti. I run a similar system, a ubuntu linux box with Venti under p9p with a VMware guest s

[9fans] Regenerating Venti Index Sections?

2008-04-22 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
Hi, I have a ~5GB Venti which had run for some time with one 256MB Index Section; recently, the Index Section became corrupted. The Arenas are intact. I was using plan9port's Venti. Is it possible for me to reconstruct the index section? If so, how? Will the Venti be able to run without it? If I

[9fans] How to read fossil+venti partition without venti

2008-04-22 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
Hello. I'm trying to recover my files from the fossil+venti system I have. I changed the configuration to read fsys oldfs config /dev/sdC1/fossil fsys oldfs open -AWPVr srv fossil then do fossil/fossil -f /dev/sdC1/fossil mount /srv/fossil /n/oldfs oldf

Re: [9fans] /lib/rfc

2008-04-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> Yes, /lib/rfc/grabfc. Uncomment this line: > > /cron/sys/cron:#30 9 * * *local /lib/rfc/grabrfc thank you. unfortunately, it turns out that this script causes something that looks like deadlock between ramfs and ftpfs. i didn't get a bead on ramfs before ftpfs exited but it was in state

Re: [9fans] /lib/rfc

2008-04-22 Thread Charles Forsyth
> Perhaps we > were lucky and did not connect to a broken router again. >The fault on why QEMU crashes every time > I boot Plan 9 -- venti. With a fossil only system, everything worked > without a hitch -- until that corrupt >On Leopard I've found that QEMU runs very slowly but crashes >exc

Re: [9fans] QEMU and Venti

2008-04-22 Thread Russ Cox
> Hello. Someone just told me the fault on why QEMU crashes every time I > boot Plan 9 -- venti. With a fossil only system, everything worked > without a hitch -- until that corrupt root entry fiasco which cost me > a book I was writing, a troff preprocessor (eg, for graphing > equations),

Re: [9fans] QEMU and Venti

2008-04-22 Thread Jeff Sickel
On Apr 22, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote: Hello. Someone just told me the fault on why QEMU crashes every time I boot Plan 9 -- venti. With a fossil only system, everything worked without a hitch -- until that corrupt On Leopard I've found that QEMU runs very slowly but crashes

Re: [9fans] /lib/rfc

2008-04-22 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
Yes, but IIRC, I did undo the change some time after we had the problem, leaving it back to 1500, and I´ve never seen it happen again. Perhaps we were lucky and did not connect to a broken router again. On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Gorka Guardiola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22,

[9fans] QEMU and Venti

2008-04-22 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
Hello. Someone just told me the fault on why QEMU crashes every time I boot Plan 9 -- venti. With a fossil only system, everything worked without a hitch -- until that corrupt root entry fiasco which cost me a book I was writing, a troff preprocessor (eg, for graphing equations), my extensi

Re: [9fans] /lib/rfc

2008-04-22 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We had the same problem time ago and had to lower the mtu by hand. > Perhaps detecting too many retransmissions of the same packet could be > considered a hint > of this problem and try by reducing at least on

Re: [9fans] /lib/rfc

2008-04-22 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
We had the same problem time ago and had to lower the mtu by hand. Perhaps detecting too many retransmissions of the same packet could be considered a hint of this problem and try by reducing at least once the mtu. In any case, it´s been a long time since we had this problem. I even forgot about it

Re: [9fans] /lib/rfc

2008-04-22 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Apr 22 13:50:10 EDT 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > /lib/rfc/grabrfc? I'm running it now and it seems to be populating > just fine. > > John i had the usual fight with the natted dsl that doesn't pass icmp mustfrags. i also elected to skip the big honking xml index if(! ~ $targe

Re: [9fans] /lib/rfc

2008-04-22 Thread john
/lib/rfc/grabrfc? I'm running it now and it seems to be populating just fine. John

Re: [9fans] /lib/rfc

2008-04-22 Thread geoff
Yes, /lib/rfc/grabfc. Uncomment this line: /cron/sys/cron:#30 9 * * * local /lib/rfc/grabrfc --- Begin Message --- is there an existant script for populating this? - erik --- End Message ---

Re: [9fans] /lib/rfc

2008-04-22 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2008-Apr-22, at 10:11 , erik quanstrom wrote: is there an existant script for populating this? Actually, is uses /lib/ietf/rfc, and the corresponding idmirror script uses /lib/ietf/id.

Re: [9fans] /lib/rfc

2008-04-22 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2008-Apr-22, at 10:11 , erik quanstrom wrote: is there an existant script for populating this? /n/sources/contrib/lyndon/rfcmirror is one.

[9fans] /lib/rfc

2008-04-22 Thread erik quanstrom
is there an existant script for populating this? - erik

Re: [9fans] i/o error reading large sata disk

2008-04-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> > read: i/o error > > i think i see the problem. we're off by one bit. > [...] > /n/sources/plan9//sys/src/9/pc/sdata.c:1344,1350 - sdata.c:1344,1350 > }; > > static int > - atageniostart(Drive* drive, vlong lba) > + atageniostart(Drive* drive, uvlong lba) > { > Ctlr *ctlr; >