Re: [9fans] usb mouse not working

2012-01-04 Thread erik quanstrom
a bit of an update, disabling one of the usb ehci devies "fixed" things but i get a number of errors and warnings from epiowait() with this format: "ehci %#p: io %#p qh %#p timed out (no intr?)\n". things are not right, but at least the machine is working as a terminal. i added some general code t

[9fans] usb mouse not working

2012-01-04 Thread erik quanstrom
i have a ehci-only system that seems to be recogizing the mouse, but the mouse doesn't work. one thing that stands out is that the "online" light in the scroll button doesn't light. i seem to have the kbd process running, p=(Proc)0x56798pid 92 Running t=(Thread)0x57138Running

Re: [9fans] ramfs, fossil, venti etc.

2012-01-04 Thread tlaronde
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 01:33:46PM +, Steve Simon wrote: >[...] > Don't forget you can always grow your venti by adding more arenas > partitions. More indexes can be added also - rebuilt from your > existing arena partitions). > I finally read the paper about fossil/venti so it's a little mo

Re: [9fans] ramfs, fossil, venti etc.

2012-01-04 Thread tlaronde
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 08:45:41AM -0600, Jack Norton wrote: > > I don't follow. Wouldn't read only data be perfect for venti? If I had > a bunch of files that I would never need changed, I would just throw > them directly into venti and be done with it. Couldn't you just push > those files

Re: [9fans] ramfs, fossil, venti etc.

2012-01-04 Thread Jack Norton
On 1/4/2012 2:58 AM, Vivien MOREAU wrote: Hello Thierry, tlaro...@polynum.com writes: My date is organized, at least, in three distinct chunks: 1) The data that I use read-only (written by someone else and that can be retrieved at will). So are the sources for the OSes etc., that I may backup

Re: [9fans] ramfs, fossil, venti etc.

2012-01-04 Thread Steve Simon
I split my disk up into fossil, venti, and other (as well as a few other small partitions like nvram and fs). My 'other' filesystem is a fossil partition but it is never dumped to venti as it only holds files which are temporary or which are already backed up elsewhere - e.g. CDROM ISO images. Do

Re: [9fans] ramfs, fossil, venti etc.

2012-01-04 Thread tlaronde
Hello Vivien, On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 09:58:36AM +0100, Vivien MOREAU wrote: > Hello Thierry, > > tlaro...@polynum.com writes: > > [snipped] > > > > Do I get the things approximately correct above? > > You don't need to have several fossil on the disk. Just use chmod +t > /usr/tlaronde/rodata i

Re: [9fans] ramfs, fossil, venti etc.

2012-01-04 Thread Vivien MOREAU
Hello Thierry, tlaro...@polynum.com writes: > My date is organized, at least, in three distinct chunks: > > 1) The data that I use read-only (written by someone else and that can > be retrieved at will). So are the sources for the OSes etc., that I may > backup (on optical disks) from time to tim