art3mis Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 Lately I've been having to force quit Houdini while waiting for a render to start. I was wonder if there is ever a chance that your .hip file may become corrupted when you do a force quit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tar Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 There is always the backup versions available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeiamyourfather Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 If the HIP is being modified then it could be corrupted. For example a crash while saving the scene file. If you're starting a render it shouldn't be messing with the scene file on disk. It's crap like this that makes me use ZFS in production. Snapshots every 15 minutes! It has saved the day on quite a few occasions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
art3mis Posted July 18, 2017 Author Share Posted July 18, 2017 Thanks Marty! Yes, that has been my experience. Just wanted some confirmation since I force quit quite a bit! On occasion when saving if I experience a freeze or crash then reopening the .hip I usually get an EOF error. May I ask, ZFS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tar Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 @lukeiamyourfather what is the best guide to ZFS? - I ran the installer but it appears I need to set it up for the drives? Ubuntu 16.10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeiamyourfather Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 This is a great resource that covers almost all aspects of ZFS on Linux. It's more or less the documentation. https://pthree.org/2012/04/17/install-zfs-on-debian-gnulinux/ I've taught a few classes on it that go through install and basic setup on Ubuntu. My presentation is below. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TPIWcSngHa9euNbcdDMATcs4lucmC3sDmnYsvjRjbZ0/edit?usp=sharing If you're new to ZFS in general I'd look at the presentations from Sun back in the day that cover why ZFS is different/important/powerful compared to anything else out there. Leave everything you know about file systems and volume managers behind here. http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~awang/courses/cop5611_s2013/zfs.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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