From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Nielsen To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-ID: <20031022154323.GY834@cassie.foobarbaz.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Subject: [9fans] venti+fossil, the boot process, and 48-bit lba Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:43:23 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 77937b54-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I've spent the night working to recover/rebuild my venti+fossil fileserver. The recover part was due to something hosing the superblock in fossil. No idea what it was. The rebuild part was to add another disc for use as the venti index so I can use the much larger disc the index was on for more arenas. I also wanted to setup the configs on the discs using [venti,fossil]/conf. I thought this would be easy enough. For recovery, just reformat fossil with a venti score. Then I could go about rebuilding the index on the new disc and creating more arenas. This has led to nothing but trouble. After much pulling of hair and head-scratching, it turns out that 9load doesn't know how to handle discs over 128G because it doesn't know anything about 48-bit lba. As a result, when boot tries to start venti and venti tries to find the arenas, it all goes to hell. Patches to 9load should be done later today or early tomorrow. Ron, weren't you working on eliminating 9load from the picture? -- Christopher Nielsen "They who can give up essential liberty for temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin