Hi dante! I would appreciate it a lot if you could send the "clone script" that you used to clone the 9pi imate to a larger SD card. Thanks beforehand!
Kind Regards, Mats 2014-11-18 21:29 GMT+01:00, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com>: >> If you must use a rpi, you should strive to use it as a terminal, and >> like every other Plan 9 terminal it should use the central file server >> without local storage. > > That would be my advice too. As an experiment, I set up a 9picpu using > the SD card as local storage, working mostly as a secondary smtp and imap > server. After a bit less than a year, the SD card suffered a catastrophic > failure. When I say catastrophic, I mean I can't find any meaningful data > anywhere in the first 120MB or so of /dev/sdM0/data ... just > not-quite-random > looking garbage. > > I can't think of any software fault that could wipe out so much of a > disk, with no respect for partition boundaries (the dos partition in > the first 64MB had not been mounted). But I also know too little about > the internals of SD cards to understand how they fail. Maybe some > internal logical-to-physical block mapping table went bad? > > Anyway, it's just one anecdotal data point, but I wouldn't be happy > running any plan 9 machine with an SD card as the main filesystem. > > >
