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Subject: [9fans] Reliability of fossil
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:13:38 +0900
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Hello,

My comments about reliability of fossil.

I have two fossil server. One is for home network, another is for
Internet.

CASE fossil for home network
That works perfectly fine. No trouble since the first installation
term% ls /n/dump/*
d-r-xr-xr-x M 29 adm adm 0 Jan 18  2003 /n/dump/2003/0118
d-r-xr-xr-x M 29 adm adm 0 Jan 19  2003 /n/dump/2003/0119
d-r-xr-xr-x M 29 adm adm 0 Jan 19  2003 /n/dump/2003/0119.1
d-r-xr-xr-x M 29 adm adm 0 Jan 20  2003 /n/dump/2003/0120
d-r-xr-xr-x M 29 adm adm 0 Feb  4  2003 /n/dump/2003/0204
d-r-xr-xr-x M 29 adm adm 0 Feb  6  2003 /n/dump/2003/0206
...
d-r-xr-xr-x M 29 adm adm 0 Oct 19 22:25 /n/dump/2003/1019
d-r-xr-xr-x M 29 adm adm 0 Oct 20 07:46 /n/dump/2003/1020
d-r-xr-xr-x M 29 adm adm 0 Oct 20 22:18 /n/dump/2003/1020.1
d-r-xr-xr-x M 29 adm adm 0 Oct 21 22:35 /n/dump/2003/1021
d-r-xr-xr-x M 29 adm adm 0 Oct 22 09:03 /n/dump/2003/1022
term%

CASE fossil for Internet
My computers are placed at my office of my university.
Three of my machines were dead at 8 August because of typhoon.
Windows were open and the machines were drenched!
File server and CPU server were alive.
So I reconstructed file server to be auth+venti+fossil server.
The system continued working without any trouble until 30 September.
My system, ar.aichi-u.ac.jp (with alias plan9.aichi-u.ac.jp) has been
in service for educational purpose. A massive amount of accesses
comes from students, specially at every Tuesday.
The day, 30 September, was the first Tuesday of this semester.
 From that day, my fossil falls into broken state at every Tuesday.
I suspected hardwares because they were old and I replaced them
with new one. However even after the replacement, fossil continues
getting
into trouble at every Tuesday.
Now I have added new machine that is based on kfs for the services to
students.

I appreciate the effort of Russ. Fossil is really fine. But it is
desired to
test under hard condition.

Kenji Arisawa