[9fans] venti woes

["Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>]

Hi,

I have been foolish and broken my machine :-(

This is a standalone terminal which used to have
a ide kfs and I am migrating to SCSI and fossil+venti.

I installed the scsi disk from the bootable CD and copied
my user area accross trivially.

Then I formated the venti arenas and index, initialised the index,
and set venti=#S/sd00/venti in plan9.ini - and rebooted

All went fine for a while but after an hour or so the disk started
rattling and the machine hung (Rio completely hung, ^T^T^P still worked).

I was very surprised as the snaptime specified the snap -a to happen at 3am
(see below).

I rebooted and the disk rattled again but this time rio was responsive
so I ignored the disk and worked on. eventually the disk stopped.

Somtime later I noticed my mailbox has become a zero length file.

I rebooted again and now my profile has become a zero length file.

My theroy is that fossil is sending the data to venti but seems unable
to fetch archived files from it.

I kept the IDE disk "just in case" so its not so aufull, and I could
reinstall, but I I would probably do the same things and get the
same result.

	anyone any ideas?

-Steve


larch% venti/conf /dev/sd00/fossil
index main
isect /dev/sd00/index
arenas /dev/sd00/arenas

larch% fossil/conf /dev/sd00/fossil
fsys main config /dev/sd00/fossil
fsys main open -c 3000
fsys main snaptime -a 0300 -s 15 -t 1440
listen tcp!*!564