[rabbitmq-discuss] Recovering from power failure

Mon Aug 3 21:35:50 BST 2009

Wow, that one turned into
http://lists.rabbitmq.com/pipermail/rabbitmq-discuss/2009-August/004727.html.
 Are people getting my emails correctly, or does everybody see what
pipermail is showing?

On 03/08/2009, tsuraan <tsuraan at gmail.com> wrote:
> If the message at
> <http://lists.rabbitmq.com/pipermail/rabbitmq-discuss/2009-August/004719.html>
> is representative of what people saw from my last email, then the
> email got pretty badly mangled.  The rest of my email read like this:
>
> From the eof, I'm guessing that some file wasn't completely written,
> so the persister is pretty angry.  So, I have a few questions :)
> Should rabbit be robust to power failures?  i.e, is the persister a
> durable file structure, or is it fragile to being killed when writing?
>  Also, is there a better way to recover than by wiping out the files
> in the rabbit queue dir and re-initializing the queues?
>
> I also have the erl_crash.dump if this is a bug that could be fixed
> with a crash.dump, and I have the files from the rabbit dir that are
> causing the crash, if those would be useful to the developers.
>