Re: [9fans] is there a distributed filesystem

2012-01-20 Thread Akshat Kumar
>> is there a distributed filesystem from plan 9 that i could compile under p9p >> and use on linux? >> >> the problem at hand: i want a hot spare  DHCP server at my LAN; i'm currently >> using dnsmasq. to achieve synchronization of leases i need to synchronize at >> least one file between two serv

Re: [9fans] venti backup

2012-01-20 Thread David du Colombier
> Does the presence of the trailer imply that I should add an extra > block to the arenas backup? > If my last arena is > > arena='arenas059' [31676186624,32213057536) > > then I should backup 32213057536+8192 bytes instead of 32213057536? No, the trailer is located at the end of the arena, just

Re: [9fans] venti backup

2012-01-20 Thread hugo rivera
Does the presence of the trailer imply that I should add an extra block to the arenas backup? If my last arena is arena='arenas059' [31676186624,32213057536) then I should backup 32213057536+8192 bytes instead of 32213057536? 2012/1/20 David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com>: > This is because eac

[9fans] venti backup

2012-01-20 Thread David du Colombier
This is because each arena have an header (ArenaHead) and a trailer (ArenaTrail) we would like to copy. The header, in particular, is located just one block before the start of the arena. -- David du Colombier

[9fans] olpc!

2012-01-20 Thread Tristan
i've been slowly poking away at the olpc port that's floating around and have a terminal with graphics working mostly (there are artifacts from the software cursor). anyway, if anyone is interested, see contrib/tristan/(olpc.tgz olpc.fth) requires an olpc and supported usb ethernet. i've gotten

Re: [9fans] Building Go on Plan 9 using Antony Martin's

2012-01-20 Thread John Floren
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 1:48 AM, ROuNIN wrote: > Hello, > Thank you. Sorry for late reply: > > I get this message - something seems drastically wrong with my Plan9 > install -- > > 8l > cp 8.out /386/bin/go/8l > 8c > 8l  -o 8.out cgen.8 cgen64.8 div.8 list.8 machcap.8 mul.8 pgen.8 pswt. > 8 peep.8

Re: [9fans] venti backup

2012-01-20 Thread hugo rivera
Thanks a lot, David, for your detailed reply. I've followed your indications and now I am able to recover from my venti backup :-) I must confess that I am puzzled, because some sizes and most seeks for dd are off by 1 block from what I expect. Particulary, why do you % dd -if arenas2.img -of arena

Re: [9fans] is there a distributed filesystem

2012-01-20 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
> is there a distributed filesystem from plan 9 that i could compile under p9p > and use on linux? > > the problem at hand: i want a hot spare  DHCP server at my LAN; i'm currently > using dnsmasq. to achieve synchronization of leases i need to synchronize at > least one file between two servers. p

Re: [9fans] venti backup

2012-01-20 Thread David du Colombier
> that's only 98 blocks of 8192 bytes, not 128 as you mention. Sorry, I got confused. It's 98 blocks on arena partition and 128 blocks on isect partition. I just tried. This is what I did. The goal is to manually recopy the first arena from the first Venti (arenas1.img) to the second Venti (aren

[9fans] is there a distributed filesystem

2012-01-20 Thread dexen deVries
hi list, is there a distributed filesystem from plan 9 that i could compile under p9p and use on linux? the problem at hand: i want a hot spare DHCP server at my LAN; i'm currently using dnsmasq. to achieve synchronization of leases i need to synchronize at least one file between two servers

Re: [9fans] venti backup

2012-01-20 Thread hugo rivera
There's something weird going on. First checkarenas reports % venti/checkarenas -v /dev/da1s4 arena='arenas00' [802816,537673728) version=5 created=1265030300 modified=1265248834 sealed score=f383ebf9edefe8d37733c8caba6ff53e8b5517b0 clumps=82,908 compressed clumps=22,812 da

Re: [9fans] Building Go on Plan 9 using Antony Martin's

2012-01-20 Thread ROuNIN
Hello, Thank you. Sorry for late reply: I get this message - something seems drastically wrong with my Plan9 install -- 8l cp 8.out /386/bin/go/8l 8c 8l -o 8.out cgen.8 cgen64.8 div.8 list.8 machcap.8 mul.8 pgen.8 pswt. 8 peep.8 reg.8 sgen.8 swt.8 txt.8 ../8l/enam.8 goos.8 ../cc/cc.a8 /386/ lib/