Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:32:15 +1000 From: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>, Vladimir Kushnir <vkushnir@Alfacom.net>, mckay@thehub.com.au Subject: Re: Whatever happened to CTM? Message-ID: <200103221332.f2MDWFP27615@dungeon.home> In-Reply-To: Message from Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> of "Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:31:40 %2B1100." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103221523520.9043-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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On Thursday, 22nd March 2001, Bruce Evans wrote: >On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Stephen McKay wrote: >> On the contrary, I prefer CTM over CVSup, even on a fast connection (which >> I don't currently have). On a slow or intermittent connection, CTM beats >> CVSup by a large margin. > >I'm not sure about that. CTM may be faster, but it works less >automatically, especially when it breaks, and it breaks often, at both >the server and client levels (mainly downtime problems for the server >and disk-full problems for the client. I used to use it until the >server broke one time too many last year. CTM's advantages outweigh the disadvantages for me. I don't run out of disk space(*), and the server failures have been rare. Certainly, the reliability of CTM delivery exceeded the reliability of all of the M$ systems the guys in the neighbouring cubicles managed at my previous employer. Until now, of course. What we need now is someone to supply hardware and some connectivity. I still think CTM has sufficient advantages to justify its continued existence. I think the project should fund it. Stephen. (*) The tangle you get in after ctm croaks from lack of disk space were supposed to have been fixed. I don't think they have been. It shouldn't be too difficult though. All those md5 checksums make repairs trivial to automate, in theory. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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