Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:00:30 -0800 | From | walt <> | Subject | Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air |
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>>On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > The best way to fix this isn't to add locking to rsync, but to add two > files inside or outside the tree, each one is a sequence number, so you > fetch file1 first, then you rsync and you fetch file2, then you compare > them. If they're the same, your rsync copy is coherent. It's the same > locking we introduced with vgettimeofday...
How is this different from writing one file named LOCK while updating the tree?
I know this is a really basic question, but it also seems like a really old problem which must have been solved multiple times by now. Am I really wrong about this? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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