Jack Norton <[email protected]> writes: > I'd like to know some recent real world experiences with > fossil+venti. This stems from rumors that for some people, fossil has > a history of data loss. I don't like rumors (or data loss), and I'm
Maybe newbies tend to bang on the edges of fossil more than the old hats, but I've encountered a couple of problems with fossil+venti. (1) A fresh fossil+venti install on a ThinkPad T23 resulted in a file system with read errors. (Discussed in a previous thread on this list.) On the other hand, a fossil-only install on the same machine worked fine. This was resolved by using a 9atom kernel and enabling DMA in plan9.ini. (2) I once experienced something really bizarre, whereby doing something like a cp/dircp over a file resulted in corruption of the backed up copy. If I recall correctly, the snap/archive (don't remember which) copy of the file thereafter contained zero bytes, even though both the previous and new versions of the file were non-zero in length. This is probably a problem with how fossil+venti handle file truncation. I learned to tiptoe around that by using rm before cp/dircp. Other than those, I've never lost data with fossil+venti... at least in the whole three months or so this noob's been using them. :) YMMV. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ |E-Mail: [email protected] PGP key ID: BC549F8B| |Fingerprint: 9329 DB4A 30F5 6EDA D2BA 3489 DAB7 555A BC54 9F8B| +---------------------------------------------------------------+
