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From: a@9srv.net
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] mounting fossil
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:23:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2c69d0258a5cb3477c339d68766396a7@9srv.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM6ozu7CBhf-t_BRWYPVa7Fm2yAcDkgLfir0Z99jc=R4yCgqxw@mail.gmail.com>

// I have an  IDE HD with fossil (no venti) partition on it.
// It contains some data precious to me.

David's already provided good instructions on dealing with your
immediate problem, but allow me to take a step back:

Don't do that!

Fossil, without venti, is not the stablest thing around. I would very
strongly recommend against putting precious data on it. I've had it
go wonky personally, and there've been plenty of similar reports
here. In my experience, it's particularly vulnerable to unclean
shutdown, but I've seen more difficult-to-explain issues, too.

With venti, it's great: the snapshotting capabilties are very nice,
venti's very solid, and if your fossil does get out of whack, it's trivial
to re-initialize it from a known-good state from venti.

Anthony




  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-14 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-14  8:35 Peter A. Cejchan
2013-03-14  9:41 ` David du Colombier
2013-03-14 14:23 ` a [this message]
2013-03-14 15:33   ` Peter A. Cejchan
2013-03-14 15:54     ` a
2013-03-15  7:43       ` Peter A. Cejchan

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