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From: smiley@icebubble.org
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Date: Tue,  3 Jan 2012 17:21:31 +0000
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Subject: [9fans] Killing venti
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Yeah, I know, pull out a sharp knife, and jab real hard...

No, really.  What's the prescribed way to kill a venti server, safely,
without losing data?  The approach I've been using on p9p has been:

  (1) Wait for venti to stop writing to disk.
  (2) Send venti SIGTERM.

The venti process dies, sure enough, but I later get errors that some
blocks haven't been stored.  (Whether they weren't stored, or were
stored and just failed to get indexed or Bloomed, I don't know.)

So, what's the proper way to do this?  Is there something like "echo
pleasedieimaskingnicely > /tmp/ns.smiley:1/venti.ctl" I can use?

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