From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5d375e920711201336t6eaeba6fi35151042bd22194c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:36:39 +0100 From: Uriel To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] sources/contrib In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60711201221r73e8f8a9t7587391782ba6af4@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <32d987d50711200746j51c8c6b6q2fa55b3cf45d237d@mail.gmail.com> <32d987d50711200757y359e7a45k26876ebe2626ea8c@mail.gmail.com> <5d375e920711201031p466b9063mf283acc54c2976e6@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e60711201221r73e8f8a9t7587391782ba6af4@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 043d001a-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Read 9fans archives, replica/pull has wiped out more than a handful of systems, if you run venti you can recover, but it is not fun. And as erik points out, replica also has trouble with many corner cases. And finally, it is incredibly slow, but that is probably mostly due to 9p's latency sensitivity. uriel On Nov 20, 2007 9:21 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > On Nov 20, 2007 10:31 AM, Uriel wrote: > > On Nov 20, 2007 4:57 PM, Federico Benavento wrote: > > > lsr, replica, for me are the same. > > > I don't wan't people to have to download > > > a big .tgz just because I edited one line > > > of code. Plus with the ported stuff it gets > > > worst, there are people that because > > > of lack of memory, or whatever can't > > > even build the libs, that's why I'm > > > including binaries > > > > Maybe we could fix swap instead so people could actually build stuff > > without crashing their kernels? > > > > > replica was already there, > > > > I don't like replica, it is too fragile and too slow, but I don't > > think my opinion on this matters much. > > > > What fragility are you referring to? I've heard about it being > fragile but am unable to find anything to back up the claim. > > Dave >