From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:04:04 -0400 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] venti/checkarenas In-Reply-To: <1334e2398204a99210d3a3fa14c07de7@plan9.bell-labs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <18ce19a4c9788397e5576b3c188e5a7e@terzarima.net> <1334e2398204a99210d3a3fa14c07de7@plan9.bell-labs.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: e0bc1a7c-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > If my memory serves me correctly, venti/sync only makes sure buffered data blocks > are on disc. The clump info is batched separately and is quite often not on disc > when venti is stopped. The first thing the venti server does on startup is to make > the clump info up to date. You can do this manually if the server isn't running > with the syncindex command (not mentiuoned in the man pages). This is correct. I have occasionally seen problems like forsyth describes (requiring the checkindex -f), though I haven't been able to understand them or track them down. Russ