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From: william@thinktankworkspaces.com
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] List archives
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:49:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <753CE532CBA2F3A6640D634F7E6B358C@thinktankworkspaces.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4163a410-8abb-a955-3bc2-ece0487edfc6@cosarara.me>

It should work but please keep in mind its 8506 files of mail
It tooke me 10 minutes to run tar cvzf $home/9list.tgz /n/list/9front/

And I stopped it early with only 1067 files. 

I untarred in $home/9list

you can run touch $home/9list/L.mbox

upas/fs -f $home/9list

and run acme with Mail like normal

I suspect its taking a long time, also you won't see data in /mail/box/glenda/mbox

When you run upas/fs for lack of better word binds to /mail/fs/mbox

On my laptop I run mail like normal to talk to thinktanktworkspaces.com and it shows about

cpu% pwd
/mail/fs/mbox
cpu% ls -l | wc -l
    133

but in another terminal on a different namespace that mounted 9list is reads

upas/fs -f $home/9list
cpu% pwd
/mail/fs/mbox
cpu% ls -l | wc -l
   1063

So don't forget about namespace stuff. 


Quoth cosarara <cosa@cosarara.me>:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm new to the list and trying to browse the archives.
> 
> http://lists.9front.org/ explains:
> 
> > Each of these directories contains messages sent to the respective
> > mailing list in mdir format, one message per file. Erick Quanstrom's
> > nupas upas/fs (now merged with 9front upas) can mount these
> > directories as mailboxes, for reading directly with a mail client.
> > Note: Opening large mailboxes over a slow 9p link will be very slow.
> 
> "mdir" is a broken link to some nupas.pdf file (where is it?).
> I'm having trouble trying to use 9front upas to mount the directories:
> 
> cpu% 9fs 9front
> post...
> cpu% ls /n/lists/9front | sed 5q
> /n/lists/9front/1301537055.00
> /n/lists/9front/1301538397.00
> /n/lists/9front/1301539178.00
> /n/lists/9front/1301540255.00
> /n/lists/9front/1301552131.00
> cpu% ls /mail/fs
> cpu% upas/fs -f /n/lists/9front/
> upas/fs: wridxfile: '/n/lists/9front/.idx' File system read only
> upas/fs: wridxfile: '/n/lists/9front/.idx' File system read only
> 
> 
> At this point, running acme, typing in Mail and clicking it with Mouse 2
> does not bring up anything, so I assume I am doing something wrong.
> 
> There is only glenda at /mail/box, with nothing in
> /mail/box/glenda/mbox, and trying to cat /mail/fs/mbox will hang such 
> that DEL won't stop it and I don't know what to do besides Deleting the 
> rio window. Where did I go wrong?
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> cosarara
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-23 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-23  7:36 cosarara
2022-03-23 18:49 ` william [this message]
2022-03-24  2:25   ` umbraticus
2022-03-24  9:56   ` cosarara
2022-03-23 20:48 ` Humm
2022-03-25  0:58 ` sl

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