My node has been down for several days. I have traced my problem back to a failing hard drive. It was brand new 2 years ago when I dedicated it to freenet. It seems as of late my node was constantly restarting every day or so when it used to run fine for a week or two. I suspect all the constant deleting of 40,000 files every time the node restarts has taken it's toll on the hard drive. I am in the process of trying to salvage my store/nodd. Fortunately it seems all files are ok, except the chk-30507.cache file (40GB ..grrr). When I tried to move it to a new drive windows complained "cannot move the chk-30507.cache file <file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/ADMINI%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/_TS9EF.tmp/_TS2AF.tmp/chk-30507.cache> it is corrupt or unreadable" The hard drive is almost dead as the transfer of data to a new drive is sometimes as slow as 30kb per second transfer rate. 25 GB took 8 hours to copy to a good drive :(
My question is this: Should I just right off my old store completely? Or should I put all the other datastore files in the datastore directory on my new drive and fire up the node. I realize my cache is gone but the store file is still healthy and 25 GB in size. It would seem a shame to lose all that. Will my node be able to sort out what's happened and re-write the index? Yours truely, ...In a state of suspended confidence in freenet....
