From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable References: From: Quintile In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <7B8C9BE7-A787-4B53-AD2F-5AD7380B7302@quintile.net> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:55:25 +0000 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: [9fans] running plan9 : an ideal setup? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2c89c642-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I have 500gb hard disks, mirrored, for fossil and venti. I take ephemeral sn= apshots every 15 mins, kept for 7 days, and nightly archival snapshots kept f= orever. this has been running for just over 10 years. though not continuousl= y=F0=9F=98=84 I have the same setup at wok and at home Steve > On 19 Nov 2014, at 10:27, dante wrote: >=20 > Hi Steve, >=20 > how often do you snapshot? How large is the SD? > I used a 32G SD with hourly snapshots, terminal server. >=20 > I would sort of rule out the SD reliability. > After reinstalling on the corrupt SD with snapshots off, no crashes for mo= nths of always-on. >=20 > Thanks! > Dante >=20 > On 19.11.2014 11:18, Steve Simon wrote: >>> I never knew that there was a known bug there: >>> got my frist Plan9 this summer. >>> I enabled snapshots on my Pi this summer and >>> got a corrupt file system within hours. >> Ah, >> Thanks for the info. >> I wonder if this is more to do with flash card reliability and the pi >> than fossil >> and snapshots. I have been running fossil with snapshots for a year or >> so now and >> not had a single crash. >> I only use my Pi as a terminal so its flash is pretty much readonly. >> -Steve