On Jun 3, 2013, at 4:50 PM, s...@9front.org wrote: >>> Certainly. And we're back at square one. Everyone has their own story >>> about how they lost data. >> >> which is to say that the thesis that fossil sucks is refuted. > > I think it rather says that everyone has a story. Someone was > complaining about anecdotes, but that's what we've got. > > Richard mentioned fixing the snapshots bug in fossil. This > is about as close as we've come to examining the technical > issues. > > It's mostly been story/counter-story about how we all have > lost files on each of these filesystems. The important takeaway > here is that we have reports of people losing data on every single > one of them. > > I had problems with fossil. Like you, I never had problems with > (cw)fs. Charles had problems with fs. I don't think we've refuted > any claims about relative stability or even established a scale > to measure with. > > -sl >
Awesome, I'm happy to know that there's no clear data about anything and that everything can be proven wrong. Don't worry, I'm not going to bore you with my stories about how fossil/venti saved my life so many times and never lost a file, I'll just keep using it. Thanks for sharing your wisdom with the list. --- Federico G. Benavento benave...@gmail.com
