From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: srfs - a new file system.
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:38:50 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031022193849.GA21188@codepoet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200310221605.h9MG5k37007196@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
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On Wed Oct 22, 2003 at 12:05:46PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:57:09 MDT, Erik Andersen said:
>
> > Suppose I install srfs on both my laptop and my server. I then
> > move the CVS repository for my pet project onto the new srfs
> > filesystem and I take off for the weekend with my laptop. Over
> > the weekend I commit several changes to file X. Over the weekend
> > my friend also commits several changes to file X.
> >
> > When I get home and plug in my laptop, presumably the caching
> > daemon will try to stabalize the system by deciding which version
> > of file X was changed last and replicating that latest version.
>
> Hey Larry - potential BitKeeper customer here. :)
Not so much a potential BitKeeper customer, as pointing out that
the distributed filesystems prople are attacking the same
fundamental problem as the distributed version control folks.
-Erik
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Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/
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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
2003-10-23 13:58 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-24 9:28 ` Nir Tzachar
2003-10-23 17:46 ` Daniel Egger
2003-10-23 18:47 ` Eric Sandall
2003-10-23 23:15 ` Daniel Egger
2003-10-24 15:45 ` srfs - a new file system.--OT Gadgeteer
2003-10-24 9:26 ` srfs - a new file system Nir Tzachar
2003-10-22 4:57 ` Erik Andersen
2003-10-22 10:16 ` Nir Tzachar
2003-10-22 10:21 ` Nir Tzachar
2003-10-22 16:05 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-22 19:38 ` Erik Andersen [this message]
2003-10-23 5:20 ` Miles Bader
2003-10-23 5:37 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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