From: Gil <gil@fooplanet.com>
To: berk walker <berk@panix.com>
Cc: "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@lab.it.uc3m.es>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug report: mdadm -E oddity
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 14:00:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <428E4FF0.9010504@fooplanet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <428E421B.3050902@panix.com>
berk walker wrote:
> Peter -
> for us old folks, please expand "idempotent" in usage to reflect the
> relationships to which you refer.
In common usage, an operation is idempotent when it is provably safely
repeatable. Another way to say it is that you can repeat an idempotent
operation without side effects.
In the context of this conversation, Peter is asking that Doug prove
that the write can be repeated on restart without corrupting the state
of the RAID array.
--Gil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-20 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-13 15:44 Bug report: mdadm -E oddity Doug Ledford
2005-05-13 17:11 ` Doug Ledford
2005-05-13 23:01 ` Neil Brown
2005-05-14 13:28 ` Doug Ledford
2005-05-15 17:32 ` Luca Berra
2005-05-20 7:00 ` Neil Brown
2005-05-20 12:30 ` Doug Ledford
2005-05-20 16:04 ` Paul Clements
2005-05-20 17:16 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-05-20 18:40 ` Doug Ledford
2005-05-20 19:15 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-05-20 21:31 ` Doug Ledford
2005-05-20 17:45 ` Doug Ledford
2005-05-20 18:33 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-05-20 20:01 ` berk walker
2005-05-20 21:00 ` Gil [this message]
2005-05-20 21:51 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-05-20 22:14 ` berk walker
2005-05-20 20:05 ` Paul Clements
2005-05-16 16:46 ` Doug Ledford
2005-05-20 7:08 ` Neil Brown
2005-05-20 11:29 ` Doug Ledford
2005-05-16 22:11 ` Doug Ledford
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