From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: From: Josh Wood To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:50:12 -0700 References: Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil/venti falling down? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0d7a0cac-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Jun 21, 2009, at 7:11 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sun Jun 21 07:59:52 EDT 2009, 9fans@hamnavoe.com wrote: >>> 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. >> >> I get a few of these nearly every day. I've been assuming they are >> benign. > > this error sets off alarms for me. This diagnostic has concerned me in the past as well. It is mentioned here: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Console_messages/index.html but that page does not explain why it "should not be cause for concern," or otherwise address erik's questions a-d. Should we define those answers, adding them here would be good. -Josh