[9fans] New User with Problems

2010-02-08 Thread Steve
I've been scouring the Interwebs and haven't been able to find much of a solution. Yesterday I decided to give P9 a try and burned the ISO file available on Plan 9's installation page here: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/download/index.html It was the direct link to the CD image so none of

Re: [9fans] New User with Problems

2010-02-08 Thread Iruata Souza
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Steve wrote: > I've been scouring the Interwebs and haven't been able to find much of > a solution. > > Yesterday I decided to give P9 a try and burned the ISO file available > on Plan 9's installation page here: > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/download/inde

[9fans] How to extend a fossil filesystem with a second disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Wolfgang Kunz
Hi, I would like to add a second disk to my fossil configuration. I would like to ask if this is possible without fs? When it is possible I would like to ask for a sample. Here is what I was trying without success: disk/mbr -m /386/mbr /dev/sdC1/data disk/fdisk /dev/sdC1/data disk/prep /dev

Re: [9fans] How to extend a fossil filesystem with a second disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Steve Simon
> Here is what I was trying without success: > [snip] It looks right (from memory). > I was not able to mount the 'other' fs to /n/other. how are you doing the mount, I would expect somthing like mount /srv/fossil /n/other other i.e. you mount fossil but with the attach specifier of "

Re: [9fans] New User with Problems

2010-02-08 Thread erik quanstrom
> I did look around and the only possible problems I could find were > that maybe since I don't have Windows it was trying to look for the > FAT file (I'm strictly an only Linux user) in which case I do not have > VMWare and I'd be curious if there is a non-DOS ISO file that could > run on a Linux

Re: [9fans] New User with Problems

2010-02-08 Thread David Leimbach
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:34 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > I did look around and the only possible problems I could find were > > that maybe since I don't have Windows it was trying to look for the > > FAT file (I'm strictly an only Linux user) in which case I do not have > > VMWare and I'd be curi

Re: [9fans] NaN, +Inf, and -Inf, constants?

2010-02-08 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
> why does being able to switch on any enum trump > the ability to define constants without #define? Because enum's legacy is that of a 'first class' int-like object, which can be subject to the usual set of int-like operations. switch() is one of those. #define isn't. > if you try, sizeof(foo)==

Re: [9fans] New User with Problems

2010-02-08 Thread Jeff Sickel
On Feb 8, 2010, at 9:13 AM, David Leimbach wrote: > If you try Erik's 9atom ISO, you may have better luck. It'd be nice if the > 9load changes he made were already rolled up into the standard ISO, but I > guess they haven't made it yet? Steve, Dave's suggestion could work. Check the 9fans arc

Re: [9fans] New User with Problems

2010-02-08 Thread Iruata Souza
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:13 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:34 AM, erik quanstrom > wrote: >> >> > I did look around and the only possible problems I could find were >> > that maybe since I don't have Windows it was trying to look for the >> > FAT file (I'm strictly an on

Re: [9fans] NaN, +Inf, and -Inf, constants?

2010-02-08 Thread Russ Cox
we could spend a lot of time debating proposed changes, but i think it's fine to leave as is. there appears to be a good, justifiable reason for it, and it's already implemented. russ

Re: [9fans] In case anyone worries about block hash collision in venti

2010-02-08 Thread Georg Lehner
About a year ago i wrote a (kind of vapourware) backup system called Baccus, based on content addressed storage. Most ideas are stolen from Plan9/venti, but for the here discussed reasons i used the Salsa family of hashes from Dan Bernstein: http://cr.yp.to/chacha.html Respectively the Rumba-"

[9fans] acid tools for tracking leaking fd's

2010-02-08 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
Has anyone cooked up some acid to track leaking file descriptors (ala leak for memory)? --lyndon

[9fans] porting Heirloom troff to plan9

2010-02-08 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello Has anyone considered / tried to port the Heiroom version of troff? Has anyone any comment about why doing so would be a bad idea? Perhaps it would not be that difficult, or at least APE could be used. (maybe G Ritter would know of some gotchas) Thanks Ruda

Re: [9fans] porting Heirloom troff to plan9

2010-02-08 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
> Has anyone considered / tried to port the Heiroom version of troff? > Has anyone any comment about why doing so would be a bad idea? No sense tossing the baby overboard. But it's worth examining the changes the Heirloom folks have made to see what would make sense to backport. They've certainly

[9fans] tiny rio hack: Delete

2010-02-08 Thread Mathieu Lonjaret
Hello, if you have been bitten one too many times by Delete on rio, here's one quick fix: diff -r 7aac02e8704e src/cmd/rio/grab.c --- a/src/cmd/rio/grab.cSat Feb 06 22:16:46 2010 -0800 +++ b/src/cmd/rio/grab.cTue Feb 09 00:11:33 2010 +0100 @@ -142,7 +142,8 @@

Re: [9fans] In case anyone worries about block hash collision in venti

2010-02-08 Thread Nathaniel W Filardo
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 10:08:39PM +, matt wrote: > not only has someone got to find a collision during a tiny timeframe, > they also have to fit it in 8k MD5 collisions can, apparently, be constructed in 24 hours on a laptop these days. Yes, it's a constraint, but. Venti supports larger b

Re: [9fans] acid tools for tracking leaking fd's

2010-02-08 Thread Russ Cox
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote: > Has anyone cooked up some acid to track leaking file descriptors > (ala leak for memory)? cat /proc/$pid/fd Russ

Re: [9fans] tiny rio hack: Delete

2010-02-08 Thread michael block
> [...] it has happened to me too often to select [delete] by mistake > and to delete a window afterwards before I realized my mistake. there is a patch on sources that allows you to change rio's linear menus into pie menus. this allows you to associate the desired action with a mouse gesture rath

Re: [9fans] acid tools for tracking leaking fd's

2010-02-08 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
> cat /proc/$pid/fd I already know the bloody thing is open :-P I just wondered if someone had come up with some glue to intercept open()/close()/dup()/etc and track the fd's in an acid list, or something similar.

[9fans] Plan 9 on Xen 3.2.1 / 32-bit PAE Kernel / 64-bit Hypervisor

2010-02-08 Thread Kenneth L Van Alstyne
Just curious if anyone has any experience running Plan 9 under Xen with a 64-bit hypervisor? It's my understanding that the PAE kernel should work, but upon creation of the DomU, the machine quickly panics. Example output is below: wired:~# xm create -c /home/kvanals/plan9/boot.conf Using config

Re: [9fans] acid tools for tracking leaking fd's

2010-02-08 Thread Federico G. Benavento
setfdtag(getcallerpc(&s))? On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote: >> cat /proc/$pid/fd > > I already know the bloody thing is open :-P > > I just wondered if someone had come up with some glue to intercept > open()/close()/dup()/etc and track the fd's in an acid

[9fans] walk and find again

2010-02-08 Thread Georg Lehner
walk, find, locate and friends try to cope with exploring filesystem metadata at breadth and length effectively, efficiently and with controlled time/space consumption. Proposal: walkfs(4) (or finds, or indexfs, or sphinx, or ...) walkfs serves a filesystem tree similar to network devices. A

Re: [9fans] How to extend a fossil filesystem with a second disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Wolfgang Kunz
Your sample: mount /srv/fossil /n/other other works fine. There was a typo error in my mount command. Many thanks for your help! -Wolfgang On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:34:06 +0100 Steve Simon wrote: >> Here is what I was trying without success: >> [snip] > >It looks right (from memory). > >> I