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Date: Sat,  1 Jun 2013 08:29:05 +0100
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Fossil disk usage over 100%?
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secconded!

my two fossils + venti file servers have been running since 2004.
there where problems to do with snapshots which i disabled.
That bug is now fixed and it have reenabled them.

my only losscame some years ago due to me being
paranoid and over-cooling drives, and that was a loss of
a one of a mirrored pair, not of real data.

-Steve


On 1 Jun 2013, at 07:09, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:

>> You misspelled unstable. You have more sack than I could ever say I have f=
or putting anything mildly important on fossil.
>=20
> Nonsense.
>=20
> I've been using fossil on my main system since 2008, and on a thinkpad
> which I used daily when working at clients' offices for some years
> before that.  My professional livelihood depends on the integrity of
> those file systems, and I've never lost a file in an active partition
> -- apart from two or three "human error" instances like typing 'mv x y'
> when I meant 'mv y x', or inadvertently starting two simultaneous
> fossils on the same partition.  I have had some damage in historical
> dumps, but that bug was fixed in March 2012.
>=20