From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <21f6154e232308ece1ecffbffa3ef404@posteo.de> References: <1a3157d28f8065b3a7072365eb88e464@hamnavoe.com> <21f6154e232308ece1ecffbffa3ef404@posteo.de> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 09:56:51 +0100 Message-ID: From: Mats Olsson To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] running plan9 : an ideal setup? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2c1847a6-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi dante! Thanks a lot! Now I have saved the script. Kind regards, Mats 2014-11-18 23:09 GMT+01:00, dante : > Hi Mats, > > I posted it before; unfortunately the archive doesn't save the attached > files. > Here is the original post: http://9fans.net/archive/2014/08/78. > > Please see the attachment for the script. > > Cheers, > Dante > > On 18.11.2014 22:28, Mats Olsson wrote: >> Hi dante! >> >> I would appreciate it a lot if you could send the "clone script" that >> you used to clone the 9pi imate to a larger SD card. Thanks >> beforehand! >> >> Kind Regards, >> Mats >> >> 2014-11-18 21:29 GMT+01:00, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>: >>>> If you must use a rpi, you should strive to use it as a terminal, and >>>> like every other Plan 9 terminal it should use the central file >>>> server >>>> without local storage. >>> >>> That would be my advice too. As an experiment, I set up a 9picpu >>> using >>> the SD card as local storage, working mostly as a secondary smtp and >>> imap >>> server. After a bit less than a year, the SD card suffered a >>> catastrophic >>> failure. When I say catastrophic, I mean I can't find any meaningful >>> data >>> anywhere in the first 120MB or so of /dev/sdM0/data ... just >>> not-quite-random >>> looking garbage. >>> >>> I can't think of any software fault that could wipe out so much of a >>> disk, with no respect for partition boundaries (the dos partition in >>> the first 64MB had not been mounted). But I also know too little >>> about >>> the internals of SD cards to understand how they fail. Maybe some >>> internal logical-to-physical block mapping table went bad? >>> >>> Anyway, it's just one anecdotal data point, but I wouldn't be happy >>> running any plan 9 machine with an SD card as the main filesystem. >>> >>> >>>