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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:27:41 -0500
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From: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx and replica/pull on OS X
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On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:32 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> > What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> I would argue that, while it is quite cool in principle, replica is
>> the wrong way to solve the source distribution problem. I gave up on
>> replica a year ago because I got tired of the kinds of problems you're
>> having.
>
> while some much-needed patches have been slow in
> being applied, i don't think bugs (or a broken 9vx #Z)
> imply that replica is just wrong way to replicate changes
> to sources.
>

While that may be true, my experiences with replica have been pretty
dreadful.  I'm just not smart enough to use it properly I guess.  The
other aspect with using it with 9vx is that it gives me easy rollbacks
since my 9vx bits on my mac aren't currently protected by Venti.

        -eric