From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:48:38 +0000 From: Markus Sonderegger To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] strange venti behaviour Message-ID: <20080115184838.GA926@r60.telesystem.com> References: <20080114124612.GB1384@r60.telesystem.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2ea5ea92-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 07:50 Mon 14 Jan , erik quanstrom wrote: > > > > > This happens to me all the time after my QEMU crashes. I consider it > > > normal, but hate it. > > > > > > My machine never chrashed, but it occurs every time I boot my machine, > > since today. And the number of clumps vary from boot to boot. > > > > one needs to run fshalt before halting a machine running venti or fossil. i run fshalt every time before halting. the problem occured monday the first time. how can i fix it? > venti is much more likely to have trouble than fossil, but i believe the new > version of venti does a better job with unexpected outages. > > if you're running on an unstable platform, you might consider running > venti on a stable machine or not running venti at all. ken's fs has been > more resistant to unplanned outages than venti for me. (i have no ups.) > > - erik