Re: [9fans] RAID box with plan9 filesystem

2011-12-28 Thread Charles Forsyth
Many file servers using disk drives are "unreliable" if you shut them down without saving data in memory first. Both /sys/src/fs and disk/kfs force certain metadata updates to disk first to try to ensure that the fs structure, if not the content, remains consistent. In fact, disk/kfs does more than

[9fans] "fake tty" or other trick?

2011-12-28 Thread Jens Staal
Hi all I have been playing with trying to get the current MirOS ksh (mksh) to compile and run under APE. It now compiles but as it is executed it complains about no /dev/tty and crashes as soon as I try to write a command to it. Since the pdksh was ported as the generic APE 'sh' I guess the "tty-

[9fans] p9p vac/vacfs compatibility: uid/gid, ctime, 9P2000.L, 9pserve

2011-12-28 Thread smiley
Hello, I'm trying to use vac/vacfs on p9p, using the Linux v9fs driver (-t 9p) with unix domain sockets as transport (-o trans=unix). And I'm confused. :( When I mount the file system, all the files are owned by uid = gid = (-2 mod 2^32), unless I tell the Linux kernel to mount the fs as a spec

Re: [9fans] p9p vac/vacfs compatibility: uid/gid, ctime, 9P2000.L, 9pserve

2011-12-28 Thread David du Colombier
> When I mount the file system, all the files are owned by uid = gid = > (-2 mod 2^32), unless I tell the Linux kernel to mount the fs as a > specific user/group. In the latter case, all files present with the > specified user/group (as expected). I can't find any way to get at > the actual uid/g