Re: [9fans] vacfs

[ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>]

OK, vacfs is working fine on the node with the dead fossil and the still
valid venti arenas.

Here is what is neat: I had 2 arenas and 2 indexes, which I laid out this
way by following the wiki and man pages. The CDROM venti was very unhappy
with the 2 indexes, so I took a chance, changed the config file to only
have one index (/dev/sdC0/isect0), and rebuilt the index with buildindex.

All this from the CD. All the source available for perusal, so confusion
could be reduced. Any time things got weird, slay venti and start over.

Then I sucked the good score from the dead fossil, and using that score I
have been able to use vacfs to get my last venti mounted via vacfs.

Venti is very impressive, and these tools are really pretty slick.

Looks like I can recover my files, which is a real relief.

One thing that will always be useful is the FAT partition. It's just a
handy place to have around in the event of disaster and you have to boot
from CD. I think I'm going to make it bigger in future just to have it
there. Sure you have ramfs but if you have to reboot you don't want to
lose any temp files you've worked up.

ron