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From: "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p venti problem
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:00:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3aaafc130906112000p2805a98ataaa4b2b32fdf8227@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <166806220906111706h34ac9dbat54ed0e1733e52082@mail.gmail.com>

I can't help with this in particular, but QEMU does some really
low-level hackery to the point where it wouldn't compile with GCC 4,
so it's possible something like that is going on here.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Adrian Tritschler<ajft@ajft.org> wrote:
> I've got a p9p venti running on two separate ubuntu linux boxes that
> I've been using for months to keep backups of data and for QEMU plan9
> guests.  They have both stopped working, I suspect due to a recent
> ubuntu kernel update.  I've rebuilt all of p9p but to no avail.
>
> The QEMU guests crash on boot stating "error reading block 43a72...3
> or wrong score: read too small 1: asked for 0 need at le...
> panic: boot process died: unknown"
>
> Any attempt to write data into either venti on the linux systems fails
> with the error:
>
> ajft@xyz:~/tmp$ vac x
> create bsize 8192 psize 8160
> vac: vacfscreate: vacfileroot: read too small 1: asked for 0 need at least 389
>
> reading any existing *.vac file also fails:
>
> ajft@xyz:~/venti/2009/04/24$ unvac -t xyz_bin-2009-04-24.vac
> unvac: vacfsopen: read too small 1: asked for 0 need at least 300
>
> Any ideas?
> --
> Adrian
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-12  3:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-12  0:06 Adrian Tritschler
2009-06-12  3:00 ` J.R. Mauro [this message]
2009-06-12  3:34   ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2009-06-12  3:41     ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2009-06-12  6:55       ` Adrian Tritschler
2009-06-12  7:18         ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2009-06-12  7:26           ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2009-06-22  8:53         ` Mathieu
2009-06-12 14:07     ` J. R. Mauro

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