[9fans] gave up on devfs

[9fans] gave up on devfs

[andrey mirtchovski]

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

Re: [9fans] gave up on devfs

[andrey mirtchovski]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, andrey mirtchovski wrote:

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

I lied, it's still there.

Sorry to waste your time so optimistically.

Re: [9fans] gave up on devfs

[Fco.J.Ballesteros]

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This sounds weird for me. I'll try to reproduce your devfs+9fat
problem here and see if I can fix it.

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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 (MDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307162332200.6875-100000@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>

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