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.
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