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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] How to sync venti
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Date: Mon,  4 Nov 2002 23:33:34 -0500
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On Tue Sep  3 08:08:15 EDT 2002, arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote:
> How can I sync venti to terminate safely?

Once all the clients have stopped, you can run
the new command venti/sync (you'll have to pull
to get the one I just installed on sources),
which won't return until the write queues have
emptied.

Of course, they might fill up again after venti/sync
returns, but if you stop all the Venti clients and
then run venti/sync, you can be guaranteed the
queues stay empty afterward.

Vac now syncs before exiting, so if vac is your
only client, you don't have to worry about ever
running venti/sync.  As long as your vacs have
exited, all the data is on the disk.

Russ