Re: notes on fossil, ANTS, and 9front/Bell labs controversies

fyi i have been running a fossil/venti pair since 2004 and it has been soli=
d.

what is too big - honest question.

i thought the biggest issues are:

performance - the elegance and generality sacrifice some performance, thoug=
h this is not a problem for me.

 lack of a tls fs interface - there is (imho) no excuse for a lack of tls t=
hese days.

no way for a user in (say) the ventidump group to request an immediate dump=
 - handy for checkpointing a code release, though justing copying the relea=
se to a new dir is ok.

no way to push a vac score into the /archive hierarchy - nice for migrating=
 in other backups.

all these are fixable and on my todo list but none have happened.

> On 10 Jan 2020, at 9:37 pm, hiro <[email protected]> wrote:
>=20
> =EF=BB=BF
>>=20
>> The major fly in the ointment is the outdated sha1 hash function used by=
 venti
>=20
> major? fly? there's no problem with how sha1 is used by venti right now.
>=20
> a more substantial complaint would be that the venti/fossil system is
> way too big.

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