From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] fs partwrite From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-pdznbitghspqvhugppmzqeossi" Message-Id: <20020302092921.C17C519A7F@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 09:26:54 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5e16a522-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-pdznbitghspqvhugppmzqeossi Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit there's another possible cause of the partwrite message, given that you had some trouble with the configuration before. it's trying to use block addresses stored in the file system that are either incorrect (because they were previously corrupted by the errors), or the addresses were correct for the old configuration but now lie beyond the configuration you're now using (ie, it's not quite right yet). --upas-pdznbitghspqvhugppmzqeossi Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu> Received: from punt-2.mail.demon.net by mailstore for forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk id 1015024757:20:08973:0; Fri, 01 Mar 2002 23:19:17 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by punt-2.mail.demon.net id aa2007514; 1 Mar 2002 23:18 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.8.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 843CC19A76; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 18:18:07 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from utrhcs.cs.utwente.nl (utrhcs.cs.utwente.nl [130.89.10.247]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 79B9E19A6D for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 18:17:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from zeus.cs.utwente.nl (zeus.cs.utwente.nl [130.89.10.12]) by utrhcs.cs.utwente.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA29009 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 00:17:47 +0100 (MET) Received: from copernicus.cs.utwente.nl by zeus.cs.utwente.nl (8.10.2+Sun/csrelay-Sol1.4/RB) id g21NHj305768; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 00:17:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (belinfan@localhost) by copernicus.cs.utwente.nl (8.11.6+Sun/8.10.2) with SMTP id g21NHhg21095 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 00:17:45 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <200203012317.g21NHhg21095@copernicus.cs.utwente.nl> X-Authentication-Warning: copernicus.cs.utwente.nl: belinfan@localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with version: MH 6.8.3 #20[UCI] To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 Mar 2002 14:16:36 +0100." <20020301131639.45D89199B3@mail.cse.psu.edu> References: <20020301131639.45D89199B3@mail.cse.psu.edu> X-Organisation: University of Twente, Department of Computer Science, Formal Methods and Tools Group, PO Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands X-Phone: +31 53 4893774 X-Telefax: +31 53 4893247 X-Face: 3YGZY^_!}k]>-k'9$LK?8GXbi?vs=2v*ut,/8z,z!(QNBk_>~:~"MJ_%i`sLLqGN,DGbkT@ N\jhX/jNLTz2hO_R"*RF(%bRvk+M,iU7SvVJtC*\B6Ud<7~`MGMp7rCI6LVp=%k=HE?-UCV?[p\$R? mI\n2/!#3/wZZsa[m7d;PKWiuH6'~ List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 00:17:43 +0100 For those interested: I finally succeeded to solve the problem. I tried the "when all else fails, check the hardware" approach. Turned out that the read/write errors I got on my cache/config disk were caused by a scsi termination problem. As a side effect, turned out that I have two more scsi disks (in an external box) than I thought. These may come in handy to copy nemo's set-up of automatically backing up the worm -- as soon as I have these disks working together with the internal disk. (currently the scsi host adapter card (asus pci-875) doesn't want to see the internal and external disks at the same time, probably due to addressing or termination problems, but this is for after the weekend). Wasted a lot of time, learned a lot, and now it's (almost) time for weekend (after cleaning up the hardware). Axel. (who is _very_ happy to have his fs back!!) --upas-pdznbitghspqvhugppmzqeossi--