Having lost 5 hard disks due to a failing motherboard (or SATA controller) in 3 months, I must say that speed is only half of the story, reliability is foremost in my book. Especially in a notebook, I appreciate it being even just a little faster (and many SSD are much faster than HDD) but I love the fact that there is no moving part at all. I take relieability over speed anyday.
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Arch is probably more protected from corruption than SVN in the sense that you never modify any file when committing to an archive. Stuff is always added, not modified. Committing is just generating a patch-log and adding that to the archive. The window of corruption is much smaller than generating a BDB transaction.
One of the problem I found in early versions of SVN was than due to BDB, repo size was several times the data you put into it, leading to very large repo. which could be a problem.
I wonder whether you really looked into Arch because saying it is a hack onto CVS can not be further from the truth. If Arch is close to something then it is BK as Arch is also a distributed SCM whereas CVS/SVN/Perforce are just centralised SCM.
I agree Perforce is nice (I'm been using it for 4 years now) but I'm converting everything to use Arch as the distributed nature of Arch makes it much easier to manage repositories in several places while having all of them synchronised.
You talk about free enterprise ? Let's have a look at what Microsoft had done the last few years... Did it tried to support free enterprise ? No it has acquired a monopoly and try to keep everybody out.
If this is your notion of free enterprise, I don't want it. If the market doesn't regulate Microsoft (and it seems that it can't thanks to them), I guess it is up to the government to do it.
If you want a culprit, at least take the right one and as much as I despise the current US administration for many reasons, they're right about Microsoft.
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Having lost 5 hard disks due to a failing motherboard (or SATA controller) in 3 months, I must say that speed is only half of the story, reliability is foremost in my book. Especially in a notebook, I appreciate it being even just a little faster (and many SSD are much faster than HDD) but I love the fact that there is no moving part at all. I take relieability over speed anyday.
Arch is probably more protected from corruption than SVN in the sense that you never modify any file when committing to an archive. Stuff is always added, not modified. Committing is just generating a patch-log and adding that to the archive. The window of corruption is much smaller than generating a BDB transaction.
One of the problem I found in early versions of SVN was than due to BDB, repo size was several times the data you put into it, leading to very large repo. which could be a problem.
I wonder whether you really looked into Arch because saying it is a hack onto CVS can not be further from the truth. If Arch is close to something then it is BK as Arch is also a distributed SCM whereas CVS/SVN/Perforce are just centralised SCM.
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I agree Perforce is nice (I'm been using it for 4 years now) but I'm converting everything to use Arch as the distributed nature of Arch makes it much easier to manage repositories in several places while having all of them synchronised.
Do yourself a favor and look again at Arch
You talk about free enterprise ? Let's have a look at what Microsoft had done the last few years... Did it tried to support free enterprise ? No it has acquired a monopoly and try to keep everybody out.
If this is your notion of free enterprise, I don't want it. If the market doesn't regulate Microsoft (and it seems that it can't thanks to them), I guess it is up to the government to do it.
If you want a culprit, at least take the right one and as much as I despise the current US administration for many reasons, they're right about Microsoft.