[9fans] What happened on lib9p?

2014-04-20 Thread kokamoto
I'm still seeing 'sources' and 9front sources. In 9fron sources there are significant changes on lib9p and those time stamp is younger than 2011. Something important happened on 9P protocol while I was peacefully sleeping? Kenji

Re: [9fans] What happened on lib9p?

2014-04-20 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun Apr 20 05:47:44 EDT 2014, kokam...@hera.eonet.ne.jp wrote: > I'm still seeing 'sources' and 9front sources. > In 9fron sources there are significant changes on lib9p > and those time stamp is younger than 2011. > > Something important happened on 9P protocol > while I was peacefully sleepin

Re: [9fans] What happened on lib9p?

2014-04-20 Thread cinap_lenrek
9front adds a inferno inspired mechanism for handling requests in parallel to the 9p service loop called srvrelease()/srvacquire(). often explicitely breaking up your request handling into separate processes and handing off a request to a process seems overkill. instead, you can do a srvrelease()

Re: [9fans] What happened on lib9p?

2014-04-20 Thread erik quanstrom
> i used this to make usb drivers multithreaded. usb devs can > be slow to respond or sometimes even hang. as the filesystem is > bound onto /dev, a hanging usb device would hang all walks > on /dev making the system unusable with a single threaded > implementation. srvrelease()/srvacquire() made t

[9fans] bootsetup failure on 9legacy

2014-04-20 Thread Jan
During the final step of the 9legacy install on an IBM Thinkpad T60 I get an error saying that it fails to mount the 9fat partition and copy the files from the /n/newfs directory. I did notice an earlier error where it failed to apply dma to my hard drive, citing an I/O error. An error similar t

Re: [9fans] bootsetup failure on 9legacy

2014-04-20 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun Apr 20 12:50:07 EDT 2014, j...@margolius.co.uk wrote: > During the final step of the 9legacy install on an IBM Thinkpad T60 I > get an error saying that it fails to mount the 9fat partition and copy > the files from the /n/newfs directory. I did notice an earlier error > where it failed to

[9fans] FW: bootsetup failure on 9legacy

2014-04-20 Thread Jan
It was in AHCI mode already so I've put the HDD into 'Compatibility Mode' if it works I'll get back to you. From: 9fans-boun...@9fans.net [9fans-boun...@9fans.net] on behalf of erik quanstrom [quans...@quanstro.net] Sent: 20 April 2014 18:08 To: 9fans@9fan

Re: [9fans] FW: bootsetup failure on 9legacy

2014-04-20 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun Apr 20 14:12:52 EDT 2014, j...@margolius.co.uk wrote: > It was in AHCI mode already so I've put the HDD into 'Compatibility Mode' if > it works I'll get back to you. two possibilities. either your disk is actually ide (i wouldn't think so from a quick look at the vintage), or that ahci dr

[9fans] FW: FW: bootsetup failure on 9legacy

2014-04-20 Thread Jan
Compatibility Mode didn't work either so I'll try what you suggested. From: 9fans-boun...@9fans.net [9fans-boun...@9fans.net] on behalf of erik quanstrom [quans...@quanstro.net] Sent: 20 April 2014 19:27 To: 9fans@9fans.net Subject: Re: [9fans] FW: bootset

Re: [9fans] FW: FW: bootsetup failure on 9legacy

2014-04-20 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun Apr 20 16:09:33 EDT 2014, j...@margolius.co.uk wrote: > Compatibility Mode didn't work either so I'll try what you suggested. my experience is that ahci works better. so if you're having i/o errors with a sata device, it is often power mangement. if you wanna try ahci on 9atom, that might