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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: mirtchovski@gmail.com, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] How to get the diagnostics of fs(3)
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:19:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d1e62424fe2073c736b5589d80c77a70@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14ec7b180810150854i575d0f90qafc949b928613e3c@mail.gmail.com>

> back when i had mirroring via devfs (some three years ago now) i used
> 'cmp' to verify that the disks were being correctly written to and
> that no errors have occurred. i ran cmp from the nigtly log at least
> couple of times a week.

that's a good idea.

when using the mirror device, no write error is issued unless all mirrored
copies are unwritable.  this would make me nervous since without a
checksum, it's hard to know which copy is good.

(/n/sources/plan9/sys/src/9/port/devfs.c:697)

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-15 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-15  8:28 Christian Kellermann
2008-10-15  8:39 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2008-10-15  8:47   ` Christian Kellermann
2008-10-15  9:13     ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2008-10-15 15:48     ` ron minnich
2008-10-15 15:54       ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-10-15 16:19         ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2008-10-15 18:37           ` Christian Kellermann
2008-10-16  0:57             ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-16  7:38               ` Christian Kellermann
2008-10-15 12:42 ` erik quanstrom

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