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-M2f9ed7280e579942145b6ad1 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
