Hi,
There are few bugs in p9p related to 9P2000.u support that prevent 9p to
work with vacfs. I already sent a patch to Russ that fixes them.
The easier workaround that you can try if you don't wait for the bugfixes is
to change the version that 9pserve supports to 9P2000 (9pserve.c:219).
Lucho
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:23:45PM -0800, Paul Lalonde said:
> To amuse myself (and maybe even one day have backups) I decided to
> install a venti on a spare usb disk I had lying around, from my OS X
> box, under P9P. That was fairly painless, and I now have a shiny new
> 130 gig set of arenas to play with.
> So I vac'd up some files, and then thought I'd try to get them back.
> Has anyone had success with vacfs from p9p? I've tried a simple '9p
> ls vacfs.vacfile' after starting the server and assuring myself the
> socket was there, but it simply hang there - no prompt until I
> interrupt the process.
> Any ideas?
>
> I also thought I'd try vbackup, but it really wants to run on an
> unmounted disk. Of course, Macs come with their standard setup as
> one big partition with user files in the same partition as the system
> files - no way to do a backup with vbackup.
> How difficult would it be to get a vbackup image from the same kind
> of walk as vac uses?
>
> And lastly, what's the correct way to shut down venti? Will I lose
> anything if I just eject (unmount) the drive? I can force a flush
> from the web server - do I need to do that each time or is there a
> nice command line option somewhere? Or do I just write the trivial
> script?
>
> Paul
