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Date: Mon,  3 Jan 2005 13:51:59 -0500
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil
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if you've been doing regular non-venti snaps,
the super-block actually has very little important data.
the really important part is the root blocks.  every new
file system snapshot has a new root block, and a root
block is enough to get the rest of the system.

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 05:37:45 +1100, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:
> ok.  it's happened again.  i have a buggered fossil on a machine
> that uses fossil as its root.  (corrupted superblock).  i have no idea
> how it happened. i guess the obvious is to rebuild the machine
> with an extra disk and cd-rom and boot from that and poke around.
> any chances of retrieving the significant work i've done since the
> last venti snap?
> 
> brucee
>