A cwfs question

A cwfs question

[staalmannen]

Hi again (sorry about bothering you guys so much :) )

After pulling the sources + some contrib stuff (cvs, mkmk) I wanted to
rebuild my system and hit the following issue:

A lot of messages popped up stating something like
cw /dev/sdE0/fscache w /dev/sdE0/fsworm bucket (number) is full

I might have missed some details in the above standing row because I
had not pen and paper available to write it down as it happened.

If I understand it correctly the fscache is a temporary partition
mounted on top of fsworm with limited storage and that I somehow need
to "empty" the buckets to the fsworm partition?

I made the 9front install on a 5GiB partition which should be ample
for a terminal install (I think). Perhaps the Hg repositories take up
more space?

- I have tried to find some command similar to "df -l" on Plan9 to see
how full the different partitions are but did not find one. Any
pointers?

Re: A cwfs question

[cinap_lenrek]

ah, yeah... the fscache is a write cache for the fsworm
partition. usualy cwfs will dump once a day at 5:00
wich transfers all the modified blocks to the worm and
creates a new tree in the dump filesystem.

its not mounted over to anything, you just see it as
the "main" filesystem. there is also the "other" filesystem
wich works like a traditional filesystem without dumps.

you can kick off a dump by doing:

echo dump >>/srv/cwfs.cmd

the kenfs paper:

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/fs/

and the manpages are fs(8), fsconfig(8) and cwfs(4)

--
cinap