Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:37:36 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air |
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Davide Libenzi wrote:
>On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, walt wrote: > > >>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? >> > >This is even simpler I believe. If you happen to fetch it, you restart the >rsync. Peter ? >(maybe the name LOCK should be replaced by something more "uniq") > >
What happens if the the tree is updated while the client is fetching it?
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