On Mon Apr 13 18:55:24 EDT 2009, fors...@terzarima.net wrote:
> i'd have thought that soft updates ensure consistency,
> but a halt command ensures that all the changes are actually written.
i think your point is a good one and definately true
(and begs the question of disk caches), but given the paper,
one does wonder. halt didn't show up until here
http://9fans.net/archive/2003/04/218
but there are later notes, e.g.,
http://9fans.net/archive/2003/11/66
that fossil was a bit difficult to shutdown cleanly.
i'm not sure if that was in reference to the chicken-and-egg
nature of the fossil/venti shutdown process or a problem
with fossil.
- erik
