[9fans] Fossil Questions

[Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com>]

Is it just me or does fossil not clear the write buffer
after 'snap -a' is performed?

I am in the process of archiving my music collection to
fossil+venti, executing 'snap -a' when the write buffer
gets close to full. I was expecting to be able to just
start writing to the buffer once the archival snapshot
finished. Instead, it seems that I have to 'flfmt -v ...'
the write buffer and restart fossil. This is a bit
cumbersome when you have a fileserver that boots from
fossil+venti. Also, from what I have experinced so far,
fossil gets very cranky and does not recover gracefully
when the write buffer is filled.

I know people are on vacation and such, and I am more than
happy to dive into the code to address this. Before I do,
I want to make sure the behavior I am seeing is accurate
and the behavior I expect is desired.

That said, I must say the system is quite robust from a
data safety standpoint. I've been through repeated crashes
and have not lost any data that was archived to venti.
Very nice work guys.

--
Christopher Nielsen
"They who can give up essential liberty for temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin