On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:35 PM, <smi...@icebubble.org> wrote: >> run venti/sync. > > Ah. Cool. Gotta love those undocumented commands. :) While probing > the distal edges of Venti's documented functionality, I also came across > the following, which have similar (but not identical) effect: > > hget http://$vthost:$vtwebport/flushicache > hget http://$vthost:$vtwebport/flushdcache > > These HTTP requests initiate flushes of the index and arena block > caches, respectively, and don't return a response until the respective > flush is complete.
Honestly, you don't even have to run venti/sync. Every command that writes to venti ends by doing a sync. You probably don't want to use those hget commands. They are safe, of course, but it is equally safe not to run them. The icache in particular can take a long time to flush, and venti will recover the entries (in less time than the flush would have taken) the next time it starts. Russ
