Re: [9fans] Installer error (not supposed to happen)

2009-09-08 Thread Matt Adams
> > Any suggestions or solutions would be greatly appreciated. I'd love > > to get Plan 9 installed on my computer. Indicentally the same Plan 9 > > ISO installs just fine on another computer that I have: that computer > > only has one hard drive. > > remove one hard drive. add hard driv

Re: [9fans] Petabytes on a budget: JBODs + Linux + JFS

2009-09-08 Thread erik quanstrom
> So what about having venti on an AoE device, and fossil on a local drive > (say an ssd even)? sure. we keep the cache on the coraid sr1521 as well. > How would you handle (or: how would venti handle), a > resize of the AoE device? that would depend on the device structure of ken's fs. a

Re: [9fans] Petabytes on a budget: JBODs + Linux + JFS

2009-09-08 Thread Jack Norton
erik quanstrom wrote: Also, another probably dumb question: did the the fileserver machine use the AoE device as a kenfs volume or a fossil(+venti)? s/did/does/. the fileserver is running today. the fileserver provides the network with regular 9p fileserver with three attach points (main

Re: [9fans] Installer error (not supposed to happen)

2009-09-08 Thread erik quanstrom
> >Is there anything I can do to get around this or a possible fix to > >test? > > > run that portion of the installer manually, and don't perform the test, > they are only shell scripts > > if you have a plan9 already, you can roll your own installer > > my efforts documented here > > http:/

Re: [9fans] Installer error (not supposed to happen)

2009-09-08 Thread matt
Is there anything I can do to get around this or a possible fix to test? run that portion of the installer manually, and don't perform the test, they are only shell scripts if you have a plan9 already, you can roll your own installer my efforts documented here http://maht0x0r.blogspot.co

Re: [9fans] Installer error (not supposed to happen)

2009-09-08 Thread erik quanstrom
> Any suggestions or solutions would be greatly appreciated. I'd love > to get Plan 9 installed on my computer. Indicentally the same Plan 9 > ISO installs just fine on another computer that I have: that computer > only has one hard drive. remove one hard drive. add hard drive back after instal

Re: [9fans] Installer error (not supposed to happen)

2009-09-08 Thread Matt Adams
> > As soon as I put a wildcard into the test string, e.g., > > Yes, > > test -f /dev/sdC0/plan9 /dev/sdC1/plan9 > > is an invalid command. Only one argument is expected. > > You're going to have to pick one of the two arguments. I guess the crux of the matter is that I cannot

Re: [9fans] Petabytes on a budget: JBODs + Linux + JFS

2009-09-08 Thread erik quanstrom
> I read the paper you wrote and I have some (probably naive) questions: > The section #6 labeled "core improvements" seems to suggest that the > fileserver is basically using the CPU/fileserver hybrid kernel (both > major changes are quoted as coming from the CPU kernel). Is this just a > one-

Re: [9fans] Petabytes on a budget: JBODs + Linux + JFS

2009-09-08 Thread Jack Norton
erik quanstrom wrote: I think what he means is: You are given an inordinate amount of harddrives and some computers to house them. If plan9 is your only software, how would it be configured overall, given that it has to perform as well, or better. Or put another way: your boss wants you to co

Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C

2009-09-08 Thread Bakul Shah
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:31:28 PDT David Leimbach wrote: > > Having wrestled with this stuff a little bit, and written "something". I > can immediately see how one can get away from needing to "select" in code so > much, and fire off blocks to handle client server interactions etc. It's > kind o

Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C

2009-09-08 Thread Uriel
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:31 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > > [snip] > > I guess we'll see what happens. We all know what will happen: more and more layers of crud will be added. Just as Russ predicted: From: r...@plan9.bell-labs.com (Russ Cox) Subject: Re: [9fans] design clairvoyance & the 9 way Da

[9fans] porting help please

2009-09-08 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all I know it's cheating, but can anybody help me fix an initializer is not constant error from pcc error: initializer is not a constant: F0_Prelude_46primLeave --h file --- #define VAP_TAG 1 #define WORDSHIFT 5 #define WORDSIZE (1<>3) #define ZAP_BIT(1L<<(WORDSIZE-1)) -- c f

Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C

2009-09-08 Thread David Leimbach
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Uriel wrote: > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Greg Comeau wrote: > > In article <25cf9336-c071-44a5-ab04-6bb042bc5...@kix.in>, > > Anant Narayanan wrote: > >>I understand the argument that blocks don't "feel" C-like, but the > >>argument that you can do everythi

Re: [9fans] Petabytes on a budget: JBODs + Linux + JFS

2009-09-08 Thread Eris Discordia
Thanks. Erik Quanstrom, too, posted a link to that page, although it wasn't in HTML. --On Monday, September 07, 2009 22:02 +0200 Uriel wrote: On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Eris Discordia wrote: if you have quanstro/sd installed, sdorion(3) discusses how it controls the backplane lights.