From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6734968bbcac801729f716dd35f918bd@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: David Presotto To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] standalone cpu server wiki In-Reply-To: <9585.192.11.226.116.1074806350.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:13:01 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: beadf7e4-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > > You don't need to set up venti. What you set with fossil only is the > > same as you get with kfs only; a not backed up file system. I don't > if fossil crashes, is there a way to recover? yes, reboot the system and then run flchk to clean up. If you've lost some part of the fs that you need for rebooting, you're hosed, same as for kfs. > > > I also dislike the fact that 'snap -a' makes fossil totally dependent > > on venti. We used to have our main fossil and venti as separate > > machines but this forced us to put them both on one. Rsc, jmk, and I > cant venti be in another machine? is it necessary that venti needs to run > on the same machine as fossil? i thought it should be fine. > You can run them on different machines. However, now you depend on 2 systems being up in order to boot.