Re: [9fans] fossil/venti falling down?

[John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:01 AM, John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Our Coraid device recently lost two disks from the RAID5
> configuration; while we were able to rebuild from instructions given
> by support, I suspect some small amount of data was corrupted.
>
> Since rebuilding the device a few days ago, every morning I have
> returned to work to find my CPU/auth/file server in a classic "lost my
> file system" state--not locked, but trying to run any command causes
> it to hang. Also, files have been corrupted--here's the top bit of a
> copy of /sys/src/cmd/rio/fsys.c that I was working on:
>  ï¿½
> �   4 "  ï¿½C�/� TEXBASE1ENCODING + DVIPSENCODING TEX-PTMRI8R �H
> } m �����  ï¿½ a a � � �@ �8 � T�
>  ï¿½( �X � � � � � � & 0   !   �� � � � � � � �< �T � f � P � �   � �   � * �@ � . �D �Q4 � < ��t �m> �}E �
> J �X ��Q � T � \ � b � e � k ��m �a} ��� ��� �d ��� �p
>
> Any ideas? I thought maybe fossil was choking somewhere, maybe bad
> info on venti?
>
> Thanks
>
> John

Forgot to add that I've only seen one error on the console during all of this:
/boot/fossil: could not write super block; waiting 10 seconds
/boot/fossil: blistAlloc: called on clean block.

John
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