From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 19:20:04 +0100 From: Dante To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <6c32917d6e26e91710344664d5f9bde3@hamnavoe.com> References: <6c32917d6e26e91710344664d5f9bde3@hamnavoe.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Posteo Webmail Subject: Re: [9fans] 9PI kernel stability Topicbox-Message-UUID: 43a0cbfa-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 It's a tar of dante's home directory. Alternatively, it's a tar of the whole fossil partition. Again alternatively, I piclone the system to a new SD disk. Of course, it might be my Pi or my powered USB hub (I use one) or my SD cards (I have more than one). The problem is that I can't isolate the origin of the error... Thanks! Dante On 09.02.2015 16:52, Richard Miller wrote: >>>> 2. When writing large files to an USB memory stick FAT file system >>>> (say, >>>> a large TAR archive), the mount is lost, leading to a truncated >>>> file. >>> >>> Try putting the memory stick on a powered usb hub and see if that >>> works >>> better. >> >> I did, and for this reason I suspect the USB driver and not the power >> supply. > > Where is the large file coming from? I've just copied some 100MB files > from /dev/zero and from a 9p server to /n/sdU0.0, with no problem. > > Maybe something about your particular memory stick is less compatible > with Plan 9?