From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] venti+fossil woes
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Nov 2003 04:40:23 PST."
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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:08:49 -0500
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Have you tried replacing the disk?  Since only one disk I/O
is done at a time, I have a hard time believing that contention
is causing them to time out.  Contention might cause them to
take a while before they acquire the lock around the disk,
but that isn't timed.

Russ