From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <29aeebd596b4737f7b86623bfcd46a9b@quanstro.net> References: <29aeebd596b4737f7b86623bfcd46a9b@quanstro.net> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:43:48 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [9fans] Sources Gone? From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8e6c10d6-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:30 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> I can easily believe that the replica tools might >> accidentally delete your whole file system (but only >> the files that you hadn't changed) if sources all of >> a sudden claims that the files are gone, like it did >> a few days ago. It's trying to stay in sync with >> sources, after all. This was a case that I would >> never have imagined, and it probably needs some >> sanity checking. > > maybe i'm missing something. > > all the files i checked were marked deleted in the log. > i think the problem was during database generation, > there was no connection to venti. my patch should > address that. i found it necessary when doing the > history transfer. bad wireless connection. > > maybe there's also a problem with applylog, but i didn't > find it. it's very likely you're right. i was just speculating based on knowledge of the code. i didn't look into the recent failure at all. russ