[9fans] Fossil fs recovery

2011-08-10 Thread Bernd Maier
Hello, today there were problems with the Fossil FS on my Plan9 test installation. I got first something like: "iostate is 2 in blockwrite" I did than the following steps. I would like to ask if this is the right way to fix a Fossil FS? I am new to Plan9 but I come from the Unix world and th

Re: [9fans] Fossil fs recovery

2011-08-10 Thread Bernd Maier
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:25:53 +0200 Steve Simon wrote: >This is only valid if you are running venti and have have fossil >and venti on seperate physical disks of course. Good point. I did an installation with Fossil only. I will try to add a disk with Venti next. I am not sure if this works wi

Re: [9fans] Intel atom system

2011-08-12 Thread Bernd Maier
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:42:01 +0200 Ruckdashel wrote: >i'm looking at building a system to get my plan9 tinkering out of >VMs. >I'm looking at using a zotac Ionitx-t-u mobo with a sata ssd. I'm >curious if any one has tried this mobo. I'm trying to avoid having >another linux box lying around.

Re: [9fans] Fossil fs recovery

2011-08-12 Thread Bernd Maier
Many thanks! I will try it this weekend. One additional question: How much RAM needs the Fossil+Venti Fileserver in total? -Bernd On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:11:27 +0200 David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com> wrote: >In fact, it's pretty straightforward. > >In the following example, I consider you h

Re: [9fans] Fossil fs recovery

2011-08-14 Thread Bernd Maier
Done with real hardware today. Works fine. -Bernd On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:53:09 +0200 Bernd Maier wrote: >Many thanks! I will try it this weekend. > >One additional question: > >How much RAM needs the Fossil+Venti Fileserver in total? > >-Bernd > >On Thu, 11 Aug 2

[9fans] Plan9 and the real hardware

2011-08-14 Thread Bernd Maier
I spend this weekend a lot of time in trying to get Plan9 to work on real hardware. My experience: I started with the plan9.iso. No look so far because the ahci driver seems not to be in the install kernel. 9load seems to find my disks but when I choose 1 (Install Plan9) there is only the CD

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and the real hardware

2011-08-14 Thread Bernd Maier
Many thanks for your answer. I am sure there is a reason for sdiahci driver not in the install kernel. I would be happy to be able to use the normal plan9 distribution because I am not sure what happens when I am using pull to update an 9atom installation. Is there a way to get the original pl

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and the real hardware

2011-08-14 Thread Bernd Maier
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:43:35 +0200 David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com> wrote: >In your case, I think that rebuilding the ISO with the pcflop >kernel containing the sdiahci driver should work. > >If you wait a while, I could make this ISO for you. I have a build >machinery here that just automa

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and the real hardware

2011-08-15 Thread Bernd Maier
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:28:05 +0200 John Floren wrote: >I've run into this problem myself. You can solve it, but it is >kind of hackish. At the moment my Plan9 skills are very low. So I will try this way when my skills are better. >Oh, and regarding the "issue" after compiling the CPU kerne