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From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Vester Thacker <vester.thacker@gmail.com>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 server controls impaired and steps taken before
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 14:03:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0505141103804ba7c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32a656c2050514101155984a58@mail.gmail.com>

I'd be frustrated too.  I've never seen a wait that long.
I made a bad design choice in the locking of fossil blocks
and I apologize.  My suggestion would be to run sync
and then halt at the console, reboot, and let it start
again.  

There is a window (I think ten seconds) between snap -a
and fossil deciding to start archiving.  If you access any
file in those ten seconds then enough of the root gets
copied-on-write that you shouldn't see the deadlock at all.
Rebooting should cause enough file activity at startup
to get around the deadlock.

Russ


  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-14 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-10  1:43 [9fans] Plan 9 server controls impaired and steps taken before failure Vester Thacker
2005-05-10  1:50 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-05-10 21:28   ` Bruce Ellis
2005-05-10 23:14     ` [9fans] Plan 9 server controls impaired and steps taken before andrey mirtchovski
2005-05-11  0:33       ` Vester Thacker
2005-05-13 16:26         ` Russ Cox
2005-05-13 21:29           ` arisawa
2005-05-14 17:11             ` Vester Thacker
2005-05-14 18:03               ` Russ Cox [this message]
2005-05-14 22:06                 ` arisawa
2005-05-14 22:33                   ` Russ Cox
2005-05-16  6:10 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2005-05-16  9:04 ` Richard Miller

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