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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: Nir Tzachar <tzachar@cs.bgu.ac.il>
Cc: Pat LaVarre <p.lavarre@ieee.org>,
	bulb@ucw.cz, jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: srfs - a new file system.
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:08:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031024120822.GR18370@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310241114040.4770-100000@lvs-rs3.cs.bgu.ac.il>

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:21:38AM +0200, Nir Tzachar wrote:
> i think ur right, but even when u do succeed, lets take a more byzantine 
> approach: what if the time service is down? sabotaged? damaged? maybe it 
> lies through its teeth(ports) ?? maybe ur vector time is corrupted? maybe 
> a user deliberately changed his vector time - he will bring havoc upon 
> ur system .

uh, *vector time*, not real time.  Think CVS branches.

And if your server allows clients to corrupt it, then it's broken.  I doubt
Coda does that.

-- 
"It's not Hollywood.  War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
victory, it is about death.  I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies.
Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-24 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-07  4:11 fs test suite Pat LaVarre
2003-10-07 14:17 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-07 14:59   ` Zachary Peterson
2003-10-07 17:16     ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-07 18:54       ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-07 18:58         ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-07 19:26           ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-20  9:12     ` srfs - a new file system Nir Tzachar
2003-10-20 21:00       ` Eric Sandall
2003-10-21 12:07         ` Nir Tzachar
2003-10-21 14:29           ` Brian Beattie
2003-10-21 16:59           ` Jan Harkes
2003-10-23 13:58           ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-24  9:28             ` Nir Tzachar
2003-10-22  4:57       ` Erik Andersen
2003-10-22 10:16         ` Nir Tzachar
2003-10-22 14:22           ` Jan Harkes
2003-10-23  7:50             ` Nir Tzachar
2003-10-23 12:33               ` Jan Hudec
2003-10-23 20:12                 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-24  9:21                   ` Nir Tzachar
2003-10-24 12:08                     ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2003-10-24 19:14                       ` Nir Tzachar
2003-10-24 14:38                     ` Jan Harkes
2003-10-24 19:16                       ` Nir Tzachar
2003-10-24 20:11                         ` Andreas Dilger
2003-10-24 20:24                           ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-24 20:38                             ` Andreas Dilger
2003-10-24 20:52                               ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-24 21:00                                 ` Nir Tzachar
2003-10-24 21:22                                   ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-24 23:03                                     ` Nir Tzachar
2003-10-25  0:23                                   ` Bryan Henderson
2003-10-25 10:37                                     ` Nir Tzachar
2003-10-24 21:15                                 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-10-24 20:53                           ` Nir Tzachar
2003-10-25  8:01                         ` Jan Hudec
2003-10-22 10:21         ` Nir Tzachar
2003-10-25  9:27       ` Implementing writepage Charles Manning
2003-10-25 16:18         ` David Woodhouse
2003-10-25 22:40           ` Charles Manning
2003-10-26 10:25             ` David Woodhouse
2003-10-26 15:28               ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-10-26 18:47                 ` Mark B
2003-10-26 20:40                   ` Charles Manning
2003-10-26 21:04                     ` David Woodhouse
2003-10-26 20:54               ` Charles Manning
2003-10-27  8:34           ` Nikita Danilov
2003-10-27  8:39             ` David Woodhouse
2003-10-27  8:43               ` Nikita Danilov
2003-10-27  8:46                 ` David Woodhouse
2003-10-27  8:52                   ` Nikita Danilov
2003-10-27  9:06                     ` David Woodhouse
2003-10-27  9:08                       ` David Woodhouse

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