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 <st...@quintile.net> 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-M9a1240dfa0638097e3d7bd89 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
