From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:20:26 -0500 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] 9fs nvr file In-Reply-To: <581747d4e5b377e6be8de6c681420ad3@plan9.bell-labs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: a0f4ad4c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 thanks for the suggestion. what i did instead was flag noauth which does what i need to do. i don't have a suitable machine to run the auth server on. i can think of two possible ways of solving this. either run fossil+auth on the fs machine or run authsrv on a linux box under p9p. unfortunately= , i can't boot the distribution from cd on that machine. there's some 440g= x problem that reboots the machine without warning about the time rio should start. this was using yesterday's iso. a bit older distribution f= ailed from the ide drive as the symbios driver took umbrage over a message from the card. oh, and p9p doesn't have authsrv. i really need to get my act together and cobble together a single-board p= c with a cf drive to run the auth server on. =E2=98=BA - erik p.s. if you'd be interested in the patch that allows nvr access to a par= tition. (preferablly the one you booted from.), i'll submit that. it's a few lin= es. though they aren't particularly attractive. one last question: why does the worm writer starve for data rythmically w= hen dumping? the read/write cycle is about 1.5-2 seconds. did i configure something w= rong?