[9fans] p9p vbackup on linux

2008-06-25 Thread John Soros
Hello, I am trying to set up a vbackup system on a linux machine. I am having problems mounting the nfs service. Here is how i am doing it: (the venti server works fine, for sure, and vbackup worked, as vftp can see the files) $ venti='tcp!venti!venti' vbackup /dev/sda6 mount

Re: [9fans] /n

2008-06-25 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
I honestly don´t remember, but according to our dump, it seems that autofs, then autodirfs, then mntgen was added on Jul 16th, 2002 to our dump. Looking at Rog´s mail, (Jul 15th) I think that probably I did read his idea on the list and implemented it for Plan 9. A nice thing of Plan 9 is that

Re: [9fans] p9p venti w/ raw partitions

2008-06-25 Thread Russ Cox
something isn't right. I rebuilt and installed lib9 and ls, but ls still doesn't show anything useful. It may just be that I have to My first guess would be that when you installed ls again, there was already an o.ls in plan9/src/cmd, so it didn't get relinked. It should suffice to do

Re: [9fans] p9p vbackup on linux

2008-06-25 Thread a
Something of a recap from irc, but for others who might be interested: On OS X, this all just worked for me pretty much as described in the manual. With a running venti and $venti set, I ran this: sudo vbackup /dev/rdisk0s2 and a few hours later got output like this: mount

Re: [9fans] icache: nothing to do - kick dcache

2008-06-25 Thread geoff
You could run a venti newer than October 2007.

Re: [9fans] icache: nothing to do - kick dcache

2008-06-25 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
On Jun 25, 2008, at 6:37 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: Isn't that automatically done if I update daily? Or is the active venti hooked to the venticonf? since you're booting from venti root, venti and fossil are built into the kernel. so you need to update your kernel. this is not done