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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil/venti falling down?
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:45:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f579f769d816e06babfc511fdeea9d33@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d3530220906180930p575fcb4bk473decb7d1a89c27@mail.gmail.com>

> It seems to only happen once per boot, but not necessarily when fossil
> starts responding--I've seen it a couple hours after booting, which
> the filesystem tends to go away at night.

the failure is somewhere in blockWrite.  since blockWrite
calls diskWrite and diskWrite just queues up i/o to send
to the disk, it's not possible to get i/o errors directly from
blockWrite.

there are two case that do return errors.

one is if the block can't be locked.  a runaway periodic function
would make that more likely, since we don't wait for the lock.
but it seems more likely in this case that some of fossil's data is
corrupted since this started after the double-failure.
see http://9fans.net/archive/2009/03/487

the other case is a funny dependency.  there's a fprint there
that's commented out.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-18 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-18 16:01 John Floren
2009-06-18 16:21 ` John Floren
2009-06-18 16:25   ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-18 16:30     ` John Floren
2009-06-18 16:45       ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-06-18 17:10         ` John Floren
2009-06-24 17:06           ` John Floren
2009-06-21 11:57   ` Richard Miller
2009-06-21 12:12     ` Steve Simon
2009-06-21 14:11     ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-21 19:50       ` Josh Wood
2009-06-24 17:43 ` John Floren
2009-06-24 19:09   ` cinap_lenrek
2009-06-24 23:33     ` John Floren
2009-06-24 23:39       ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-25  0:00         ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2009-06-25  0:42           ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-25 16:13             ` Russ Cox
2009-06-25 16:24               ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-25 16:47                 ` Russ Cox
2009-06-25 16:51                   ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-25  0:59     ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-25 16:13       ` Russ Cox

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