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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] gave up on devfs
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:52:25 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307162332200.6875-100000@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> (raw)

Finally gave up on devfs -- will think of another way of making sure my
file server survives a disk crash (I'm open to suggestions).

I booted a kernel that doesn't use devfs and the problem with deleting
files went away.

Unfortunately not before it caused some general mayhem and corruption:

    plan9% pwd
    /usr/andrey/font/efont
    plan9% f | wc -l
        851
    plan9% ls
    b12_bi
    b16
    b24_b
    plan9% cd b16
    plan9% ls
    b16.81F7-8202
    plan9% rm *
    rm: b16.81F7-8202: 'b16.81F7-8202' corrupted file entry
    plan9%


I can't delete those, tried even 'remove' on the fossil console. can't copy
anything over them ('file already exists') either.

I don't think I've had a file system screwed that badly since I removed
/usr on a FreeBSD system when I was a toddler. Good thing is, all those
terrible crashes didn't corrupt any other data and the machine still stands
(sans devfs :)

andrey



             reply	other threads:[~2003-07-17  5:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-17  5:52 andrey mirtchovski [this message]
2003-07-17  6:03 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-07-17  7:44 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros

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