[squeak-dev] Squeaksource data loss?

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Sun Jul 19 21:04:09 UTC 2009


On 19.07.2009, at 01:53, Igor Stasenko wrote:

> 2009/7/19 Lukas Renggli <renggli at gmail.com>:
>>> Ohhh nice ... I once uploaded an MCM but was not able to delete it  
>>> from
>>> one of my projects since it was not deletable from the web  
>>> interface.
>>> Now the project is clean. Thanks for the crash ;)
>>
>> Yeah, that's because MCMs are not implementede polymorphic to MCZs.
>>
>>> BTW: Is'nt there a regular backup of the machine or ZIP of the SqS  
>>> folder?
>>
>> Yes, but only MCZs that are persistent right after the commit. I  
>> don't
>> know why the MCM mechanism was implemented orthogonal?
>>
> sounds like a new task for MC maintainers/devs :)


No, for SqueakSource server developers.

At the time I added the MCM support, it was saved just like the rest  
of the meta data. MCZs were saved to disk immediately but became  
inaccessible on a crash. So there was not much incentive to do better  
than that.

- Bert -





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