David du Colombier <[email protected]>: > I can understand Fossil have problems and they might cause data > corruption, but when data is archived to Venti, you can be sure it will > stay forever.
My experience is nearly the opposite of this. I've never lost any active fossil data. And I agree that once data is archived to venti, it is safe. But the daily archiving to venti can fail - sometimes with "archWalk:" error messages and no dump made, but more often silently leaving a dump with corrupted metadata in one or two directories preventing access to anything below them in the tree. More details in http://9fans.net/archive/2009/04/135 - I still haven't tracked down the cause but I suspect a data race somewhere. It's an irritation rather than a disaster because I've always been able to patch up the bad metadata by hand. I quite enjoy a bit of disk surgery now and then to keep my hand in.
