From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) In-Reply-To: References: <37bcfb47dc7eaaa49c532c3d773e5174@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: [9fans] lost files Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 00:30:03 +0900 To: Russ Cox , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 34d6e432-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hello Russ, >> Yes, my system was halt without sync. > > That shouldn't matter. The halt command > does a sync too. Oh I should say: "switched off". Because of interruption of electric service or because file server turned into uncontrollable state or because of my fault. >> I desire I can automatically detect these type of corruption. > > Are you using Venti? The data should still be > in the dumps at least. Yes I am using venti, and I am fixing these file using venti. I think venti is really useful. But I don't aware the existence of corrupted files. These files can make a serious problem on: system stability , system service, system security and so on. > Are there any broken fossil processes > (ps|grep Broke on the file server machine)? > If so, please run > > acid pid /386/bin/fossil/fossil > stk() > Thank you, Russ. I will try in next chance. But I believe there were no broken fossil processes. Now it seems my system is running steady... Kenji Arisawa