[haiku-development] Re: Filesystem corruption and Alpha-1

On 2009-06-23 at 14:28:41 [+0200], Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 2009-06-23 at 12:02:59 [+0200], Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
> > In any case, I am using Haiku for all my daily work except for when I want
> > to play a game or absolutely need Flash to work in a website. It runs
> > without any issues except for the occasional disappearance of e-mails which
> > I keep on the IMAP server anyways. My personal feeling is that the ballance
> > of annoying and embarassing issues versus a smooth experience has tipped in
> > favor of doing the release sooner rather than later. I would like to know
> > what other developers and users think.
> 
> For me mails disappearing is a show stopper. You're certainly right that
> even if all known file system bugs have been fixed, there might still lurk
> unknown ones under some stone (or leaf), but knowing that my mails will get
> lost frequently and need restoring from the backup is at least a major
> inconvenience and not inspiring confidence at all.

But just because Stippi is experiencing these problems, it can not be followed 
that this will happen to your mails, too. I am using haiku as mail-OS since 
several months now and I have not seen any of my mails disappear. Then again - 
maybe I just didn't notice ;-)
Seriously, though - I think there's a big difference between releasing an 
alpha version and making sure that a software is good enough to deal with 
precious data. At least for me, an alpha release does not have to be reliable. 

Anyway, even with the mentioned bugs, I personally think haiku is doing very 
fine for alpha quality software, so let's set the bugger free, soon.

I'm fine with switching to the ATA busmanager, too.

cheers,
        Oliver

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