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From: Kenji Arisawa <arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:58:18 +0900
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?
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Hello,

Several years ago I abandoned replica and switched to my own tool
"upadate",
but I hesitated to make it public because replica is so fundamental
tools
for Plan 9.
The major problem is(was?) replica doesn't properly arrange update
data-base
before it begins to retrieve files. The laxness makes replica very slow.

If replica is to be improved I hope replica looks owner/group
information of files
in updating. If these information is different from official one, then
the file should be
regarded as having modified by users.

Kenji Arisawa

On 2009/01/28, at 8:32, Russ Cox wrote:

>> But people keep telling me that replica's unreliability, painful
>> slowness, and general clunkyness,  are all in my imagination, so what
>> do I know...
>
> No, what we've told you, repeatedly, is that
> whining about problems and fixing them are
> two different things.  Fixes are appreciated.
>
> Russ
>