Ah. I stand humbly corrected :) Thank you for replying with reasons and not just anger. I appreciate it, it helps us clueless bastards get straightened out :)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Oskar Sandberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 6:21 PM Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Fragile DataStore > On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 11:14:06PM -0700, Scott G. Miller wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 10:02:08PM -0400, SiliconZealot wrote: > > > Is there any way to make the node shut down slower, and maybe wait for the > > > DataStore to stop working? > > > > > > > > > I am fairly certain that the reason the DataStore becomes corrupted, is that > > > Java shuts down while the DataStore is still writing out data. I can > > > corrupt my machine's DataStore 50% of the time just by telling it to > > > shutdown and restart, or update .jar file. > > > > Well its farely sad if thats the reason, since I'm pretty sure hard > > shut down not causing corruption was a goal (it was for mine). > > It was always the goal. I have asked Tavin about this, and he feels very > sure that the shutdown is in fact not causing the corruption, it only > appears too because it is only detected on startup. (I hate to think > what sort of weird data corruption is occuring before the restart.) > > It also seems that whatever bug is causing this is somewhere in the > accounting code (freenet.fs.acct). And it should be noted that how often > it occurs seems dependent on the system - some people get it all the > time, while the node hawk.freenetproject.org never seems to get it (hawk > is only running a 10 meg DataStore though). > > > -- > > Oskar Sandberg > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
