From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 19:32:46 -0400 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil question In-Reply-To: <40B28047.1010704@chunder.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <40B2738E.70306@chunder.com> <40B28047.1010704@chunder.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 87673cea-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > at the moment i'm doing a rdarena onto external media > to save my stuff (after a venti/sync just in case). > i did get some disturbing stuff from checkarenas ... that's okay. it just means that the clump count in the arena tail is out-of-date. it only gets updated every 512 blocks. it's okay for it to be out-of-date. what matters is that the blocks are on the disk. everything else is brought up-to-date by syncindex or when venti starts. venti/sync just makes sure that all the data is on disk, which is the bare minimum necessary to be sure that you will be able to retrieve the blocks should venti crash and restart immediately after the sync returns.