On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:19 PM, David Leimbach <leim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, November 16, 2010, Russ Cox <r...@swtch.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:43 PM, David Leimbach <leim...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I'm trying to figure out how to correctly sync a plan9port venti instance so >>> I can start it back up again and have it actually function :-). >>> using venti/sync doesn't appear to get the job done... >> >> It should. Not using venti/sync should work too since >> vac etc all sync before hanging up. The flushicache/flushdcache >> trick will make restarting a little faster, but it should not >> be necessary for correctness and shouldn't even be >> that much faster. > > I did a kill TERM... should the signal handler have cleaned up or was > I supposed to send HUP?
There's no cleanup. The data's on disk after a sync RPC, which is what venti/sync does and also what vac does when it is done. Venti's writes are ordered so that the on-disk state is always recoverable. Because of that, there's no explicit shutdown: you just kill the server however you like. Russ
