[Monotone-devel] Re: arch and monotone solutions

[graydon hoare]

Adam Logghe wrote:

> Is this solution "approved" and are there any subtleties that may
> disrupt my happy ease with it?

nope, that's exactly what I'd have recommended. netsync is symmetric, so 
pretty much all you need to ensure is that the set of machines is a 
single connected graph, in terms of sync operations.

it is not bulletproof yet, of course; young and complex code seldom is. 
it has some bugs. but I have so far used it to:

 - sync desktop <-> laptop
 - sync client <-> remote server <-> other client
 - sync client <-> other client directly
 - sync linux <-> linux, then reboot and windows <-> linux
 - rebuild an accidentally erased server from a client
 - pulled from independently constructed 3rd party servers
 - accepted concurrent connections
 - accepted syncs from other, 3rd party remote clients

so it seems to at least be partway working as intended. it needs some 
better error reporting, and still has a couple code paths which seem to 
make the server upset (or the client use a lot of CPU) but I think these 
will eventually yield to careful profiling and debugging.

-graydon