link=3Dvga; broken f.s.

[Steven Plite splite@wdni.com]

>>> 2) i don't understand the reference to "link=3D3Dvga", you haven't be=
en
>>> fiddling with aux/vga without a licence have you?
> =

> splite@wdni.com's mailer seems to be using =3D as an escape (3D is `=3D=
').

Yeah.  I'm going to build MH this afternoon.  HP's mailx has (broken) met=
amail
support.  (Hmmm... metamail came from BL too.  Coincidence or conspiracy?=
 :)

>>>prompt.  /tmp/x contains:
>>>	tag =3D Tnone; expected Tfile
> =

> that probably signifies a corrupt file system; that looks to me like a
> message from disk/kfs (or /fs).

Ahh... the light of realization dawns.

> it isn't surprising there are problems if the system hung up
> and had to be reset before a disk/kfscmd halt could be done.
> (if it happens again, wait about 30 seconds before resetting
> to give it a chance to sync automatically; normally the f.s. will
> then be consistent.)

I've been wondering how Plan 9 dealt with a corrupted filesystem.  I figu=
red
that resetting without halt'ing would screw something, but it never compl=
ained
on boot, so I (wrongly) assumed the fs was okay.

> disk/kfscmd 'check' will show the extent of the damage, but
> the demo. system is small enough that there aren't any optional files;
> something is bound to break later.

"optional files"?

> while it is possible to make the curdled file system consistent again u=
sing
> the options to disk/kfscmd 'check', it's probably better to unpack the
> distribution again into a remade file system.

I'll do that.  Thanks.

(Sorry about all the bandwidth.  I'm reading the docs as fast as I can, b=
ut
it's hard (for me, anyway) to learn a system without having a working one=
 to
play with.)
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Steven Plite  <splite@wdni.com>       Open Systems Eng. & Support, Weyerh=
aeuser
    "This is the roller coaster of endless and violent vomit."	-- Jason F=
ox