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From: Jacob Moody <moody@posixcafe.org>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Followup: Hjfs Installation Fails With Infinitely-Repeated "file does not exist" Messages
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:44:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <02ab448b-96ec-2024-d234-45df95dbe02d@posixcafe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16904180910.DB58e.90726@lsd.chicago.il.us>

On 7/26/23 19:34, Jay F. Shachter wrote:
> 
> Followup to my posting of a few minutes ago:
> 
> One thing that I had not yet tried, was to re-install and select the
> "experimental" hjfs filesystem.  Don't even try doing that, because it
> will break your heart.  The installation fails at a very early stage,
> with infinitely-repeated messages of
> 
>    % mount -c /srv/hjfs.newfs /n/newfs
>    mount: can't open /srv/hjfs.newfs: '/srv/hjfs.newfs' file does not exist
> 
> 
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> 

hjfs works just fine for me, you likely gave it too big of a cache.
Use a smaller cache(512-1024), this no longer happens with an updated system
but it was not in the release.

      reply	other threads:[~2023-07-27  0:46 UTC|newest]

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2023-07-27  0:34 Jay F. Shachter
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