Re: [9fans] stealing hard drive's contents

[Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>]

> But the network has to be stable.  If venti/copy stops in the way,
> bad things can happen.  like, you've got the root score copied to
> the local venti but not the whole tree.

I had a venti/copy go bad on me once, and it didn't seem to me as if
there were network problems at the time.  I *think* I used copy -f;
as a sanity check I tried to tar some random old dump trees to
/dev/null and found blocks missing.  So I fell back to copying
each arena from the old machine to the new one and feeding it to
the new venti with wrarena (the new venti had different sizes for
everything, so I couldn't just use the old arenas).

In hindsight I probably should have reported the problem; I didn't
because of uncertainty that what I was trying to do made sense
and because of "new venti soon" rumors...

Dave Eckhardt