I believe you Steve, but I also believe noam. He's apparently the biggest lover of fossil around out here.
On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 12:39 AM Steve Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > i read the paper. > > i can believe there are still bugs, truth be told there are bugs in most > software. all i can say is in my experience i have not hit any since the > ephemeral snapshot fix. Honestly fosdil has been solid for me; i hope i have > not just jinx’ed it :-) > > -Steve > > > > On 15 May 2024, at 11:18 pm, hiro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > noam said there's also some well-known issues with locks that still > > keeps happening in fossil. did you watch the outcome of last iwp9? he > > has the best description of the state of venti and fossil to date. > > > >> On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 12:08 AM Steve Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Just a little first hand experience - I have run a fossil and venti server > >> for twenty years now. > >> > >> Fossil suffered three problems in my opinion: > >> > >> Firstly it was not well publicised that fossil was never designed to cope > >> with overflow; the sad truth is it fails catastrophically, as whitenessed > >> by Brucee. it should cope better really, but when used as a write buffer > >> for venti this is unlikely, it has never happened to me. > >> > >> Secondly it had a race condition in the ephemeral snapshot code. the only > >> way to make fossil reliable was to turn these off. This bug was fixed by > >> Charles (i think, though perhaps it was Richard) about 10 years ago and > >> with the fix my server has been taking ephemeral snapshots ever since. > >> > >> Thirdly venti and fossil are slow. > >> > >> I think its sad (an emotion, sorry) that fossil sources where deleted from > >> 9front but i do understand the principal of not distributing things the > >> community does not wish to support. > >> > >> -Steve > >> ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tad3dc0c93039a7d2-M2be0eae85ad8bfeebd63db6c Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
