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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:25:14 -0400
From: "Anthony Sorace" <anothy@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Recovering a venti from disk failure
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Geoff wrote:
// (or is it on the drive with the damaged fossil and you
// don't trust the drive?).

exactly. i'm also replacing it with something about five times the
size at the same cost. amazing what a few years will do. once the
transition is complete, i'll most of the old disk as an "other". i'm
also considering options for a more disaster-tollerant setup.

Bakul wrote:
// Wouldn't this lose all old snapshots?

I believe the method described will take the root of fossil, before
/active, the normally visible part. I'm particularly encouraged by the
example involving a corrupted disk and fossil/flfmt in fossil(4). i'll
let you know if my experience says otherwise.