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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9port venti FreeBSD
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:40:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0512301140u67ec937cjacc1c700149e4d3c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ErKhm-000IQx-OP@quenix1.dyndns.org>

> I can't run fmtisect or fmtarenas directly on partition without this
> error:
>
> ; sudo /usr/local/plan9/bin/venti/fmtarenas -b 8192
> arenas0. /dev/ad2:0-10G
> err 0: can't determine size of
> partition /dev/ad2 /usr/local/plan9/bin/venti/fmtarenas: can't open
> partition /dev/ad2:0-10G: can't determine size of partition /dev/ad2
> [status 1] ;

ls -l /dev/ad2 and look at the major device number.
There is a list in src/lib9/_p9dir.c and maybe it is missing.

> Another question (the last):
> Is there a built-in mechanism to feed the vnfs's config file or should
> i handle this with script?

Not sure what you're asking here.  Vnfs will reload the config file
if you cat /dump/+refreshconfig.

Russ


  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-30 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-21  4:07 Serge Gagnon
2005-12-21  4:43 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-21  4:44   ` Russ Cox
2005-12-27 19:41   ` Serge Gagnon
2005-12-30 19:40     ` Russ Cox [this message]
2005-12-31  4:22       ` Serge Gagnon
2005-12-31 10:36         ` C H Forsyth
2005-12-31 13:50           ` Russ Cox
     [not found] <200512210421.jBL4LmZv058701@gate.bitblocks.com>
2005-12-22 18:22 ` Serge Gagnon
2005-12-22 19:04   ` Russ Cox
2005-12-22 20:06     ` Serge Gagnon

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