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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:29:18 -0700
From: "John Floren" <slawmaster@gmail.com>
To: csant <csant@csant.info>,
	"Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] err 2: arena creation time after last write time
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On 8/18/06, csant <csant@csant.info> wrote:
> Hola,
>
> > I have a new installation of Plan9 (fossil+venti) in a Qemu, in the first
> > reboot the venti starts and then the console start to show:
> >
> > "err 2: arena creation time after last write time"
> >
> > why?
>
> I recently had that problem after a clean install of Plan 9 fossil+venti
> because there was a network error and the time could not be correctly
> sync'ed. That network problem showed up only in the fossil+venti
> installation and not the fossil one.
>
> /c
>
So, does this lead to big problems with Venti? I've wondered this
before--what if your clock gets mis-set, Venti makes an archive, and
then you reset your clock, but there's suddenly an archive /from the
future/! (cue Twilight Zone theme)
Maybe I'm just making it into a Y2K type thing.

John
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