Re: srfs - a new file system.

[Pat LaVarre <p.lavarre@ieee.org>]

> > transient errors can and will happen. so, a cosmic ray can hit N out
> > of your 2N+1 hosts, and corrupt the data  they hold. its very slim,
> > but you have to take these kind of errors into 
> > account to prove the correctness of the algorithm.
> 
> But the vector time approach solves this too and does so a lot better.
> 
> If we return to the example with notebook ...
> Now, with vector time, the system decides, that
>   * All copies in the lab are old and invalidates them.
>   * Our copies conflict. It does not blindly choose one,
> rather it asks for assistance.

We regard getting everyone to agree about what the time is as a solved
problem?

I'm inspired to ask because I'm posting this query from behind an
employer-owned firewall thru which I have not yet punched time service,
cvs, etc.  There was a day, not so long ago, when I couldn't punch thru
ftp and streaming media ...

Pat LaVarre