[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 04:53:06PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
[...] > > AFIK all other SCM except arch and darcs always modify the repo, I never > > heard complains about it, as long as incremental backups are possible > > and they definitely are possible. > Well, as you seem to have never been bitten by that bug; let me assure you > the problem is very real. Each file (,v file) can live in the repo for > many years and has to servive any spurious writes to be usable. The > curruption of such files (in my experience) only shows itself if you try > to access its history; which may be weeks after the corruption started, > and you can't use a backup for that since you will overwrite new versions > added since. Marking files read-only won't save you from corruption by NFS or the disk or the kernel or... randomly scribbling around. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/