5 messages in com.perforce.perforce-userDo you have journaling enabled?
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Jeff...@uplanet.com18 Oct 1997 08:51 
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Rich...@netapp.com20 Oct 1997 08:47 
Jeff...@uplanet.com20 Oct 1997 08:52 
Subject:Do you have journaling enabled?
From:Jeff...@uplanet.com (Jeff@uplanet.com)
Date:10/20/1997 08:52:03 AM
List:com.perforce.perforce-user

At 01:32 PM 10/19/97 +0100, you wrote: I wrote:

No, it's not that I'm saying that P4 will fail and you'll have data buy the farm. But if you put the database on an unreliable disk medium (I originally used a remote disk accessed using unreliable NFS) you might need that backup sooner than you want.

Soemone answered:

Why did you use an NFS mounted disk when Perforce communicates through TCP/IP directly, obviating the need for mounting remote disks? This sounds like a pretty perverse sort of thing to do!

The machine on which I wanted to run the server was short on disk space, and so I originally tried to use a disk on an NFS-accessible RAID drive. Boy, that didn't work, and Perforce died miserably. It wasn't P4's fault -- Solaris NFS isn't the ideal medium for database files.

But it did teach me to turn on journaling. (And to change the configuration.)

-jab