Re: [9fans] Simplified Chinese plan 9

2009-09-14 Thread Paul Donnelly
eris.discor...@gmail.com (Eris Discordia) writes: http://thinkzone.wlonk.com/Language/Korean.htm Interesting. I used to think Korean, too, uses a syllabary. Turns out it's expressed alphabetically. Expressing Japanese that way would create some space for confusion as there are certain sounds

Re: [9fans] Simplified Chinese plan 9

2009-09-14 Thread Eris Discordia
I've been, for the time being, officially p9-gagged due to core-dumping on the list. But thanks anyway for the information. And yes, the Latin alphabet does function. --On Monday, September 14, 2009 09:33 + Paul Donnelly paul-donne...@sbcglobal.net wrote: eris.discor...@gmail.com (Eris

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-14 Thread Lawrence E. Bakst
Apple has an interesting process for releasing open source code. One of the guys that works on it wrote something up on it once, but I am sorry I don't have a pointer right now. I would not assume that the it's the same bits that are used inside Apple. Certainly at the very least, many

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

2009-09-14 Thread erik quanstrom
I am going to try my hands at beating a dead horse:) So when you create a Venti volume, it basically writes '0's' to all the blocks of the underlying device right? If I put a venti volume on a AoE device which is a linux raid5, using normal desktop sata drives, what are my chances of a

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

2009-09-14 Thread Russ Cox
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Jack Norton j...@0x6a.com wrote: So when you create a Venti volume, it basically writes '0's' to all the blocks of the underlying device right? In case anyone decides to try the experiment, venti hasn't done this for a few years. Better to try with dd. Russ

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

2009-09-14 Thread Jack Norton
Russ Cox wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Jack Norton j...@0x6a.com wrote: So when you create a Venti volume, it basically writes '0's' to all the blocks of the underlying device right? In case anyone decides to try the experiment, venti hasn't done this for a few years.

Re: [9fans] sd(3) and concurrent readers/writers?

2009-09-14 Thread sqweek
2009/9/13 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net:  but i was wondering why cmp would just work.  it occurred to me that i could run the dds in parallel with a command like this        cmp {dd -if data -bs 64k -count 2} {dd -if ../sda1/data -bs 64k -count 2} Cmp was actually my

[9fans] disabling swap

2009-09-14 Thread Steve Simon
I have just hit a fossil deadlock. the symptom is simple enough, fossil wedged, stats continued to be updated and I could run whatis in a rio window but any attempt to access the local fossil caused the command to hang. I was trying to mirror sources when it happened so I had a lot of processes

Re: [9fans] disabling swap

2009-09-14 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Sep 14 20:09:25 EDT 2009, st...@quintile.net wrote: I have just hit a fossil deadlock. the symptom is simple enough, fossil wedged, stats continued to be updated and I could run whatis in a rio window but any attempt to access the local fossil caused the command to hang. [..] If anyone

[9fans] jpg bugfix

2009-09-14 Thread erik quanstrom
this fixes a bug triggered by steve's bug report. ; diffy -c readjpg.c /n/dump/2009/0914/sys/src/cmd/jpg/readjpg.c:441,453 - readjpg.c:441,452 uchar tmp[2]; m = marker(h); - switch(m){ - case EOI: + if(m == EOI || (m~7) == RST){ *markerp = m;

Re: [9fans] jpg bugfix

2009-09-14 Thread cinap_lenrek
:) -- cinap ---BeginMessage--- this fixes a bug triggered by steve's bug report. ; diffy -c readjpg.c /n/dump/2009/0914/sys/src/cmd/jpg/readjpg.c:441,453 - readjpg.c:441,452 uchar tmp[2]; m = marker(h); - switch(m){ - case EOI: + if(m == EOI || (m~7) == RST){