Re: [9fans] How to read fossil+venti partition without venti

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

No, my venti is not damaged. I just wanted to get some of my files
back. I'll try Steve's idea. But is there any way to bring up a venti
server read-only -- without it trying to sync or write blocks? (The
block-writing was the stage at which QEMU would crash.)

On Apr 22, 2008, at 11:21 PM, Bruce Ellis wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Pietro Gagliardi
> <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
>> Hello. I'm trying to recover my files from the fossil+venti system
>> I have. I
>> changed the configuration to read
>>
>>       fsys oldfs config /dev/sdC1/fossil
>>       fsys oldfs open -AWPVr
>>       srv fossil
>>
>> then do
>>
>>       fossil/fossil -f /dev/sdC1/fossil
>>       mount /srv/fossil /n/oldfs oldfs
>>
>> but when I try to get to /n/oldfs/active/usr/pietro/lib/profile,
>> venti spits
>> out an error talking about "wrong score: not connected to venti."
>> Is there a
>> way to get my files back without connecting to venti? When it tries
>> to
>> connect to venti, I get an error saying that service isn't found.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> your data is on your venti, so no dice.
>
> copy the venti partion (and fossil, if it's synced and quiescent) to
> somewhere would be a good start with a really screwed up scenario.
>
> brucee
>