[9fans] replica

["Richard Bilson" <rcbilson@gmail.com>]

I attempted to update my system using replica tonight, using glenda's
pull script, but as bootes and from the file server console. What
seems to have happened is that replica believed that every file ought
to be deleted. I stopped it before it made it out of /sys/src, so my
system is still usable.

Questions:

- Why?

- What can I do to avoid this in future?

- Is there an easy way to get the files resynchronized with sources?
If I try "replica/pull -v /dist/replica/network", it tells me

sys/src/9/ip/devip.c: not replicated; will not update
sys/src/9/pc/etherigbe.c: not replicated; will not update
sys/src/9/pc/fns.h: not replicated; will not update

etc.

I just realized that I didn't have a writable /tmp, so the pull would
have failed anyway, but I usually expect an error message in this
case, not devastation.

- Richard