From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:02:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031111150242.GE1649@x30.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FB05EDE.6090007@myrealbox.com>
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:00:30PM -0800, 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?
it's very different, your file named LOCK can be created and deleted
while rsync was running, and rsync will never notice. rsync is readonly,
it'll never care about locks.
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2003-11-11 4:00 ` kernel.bkbits.net off the air walt
2003-11-11 7:22 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-11 7:37 ` Nick Piggin
2003-11-11 7:47 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-11 15:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-11-12 21:35 ` Benoit Poulot-Cazajous
2003-11-13 14:53 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-11-13 15:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-11-13 16:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-11-13 16:29 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-13 16:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-11-13 22:09 ` Benoit Poulot-Cazajous
2003-11-11 15:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
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2003-11-18 19:38 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-11-19 14:49 ` Larry McVoy
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2003-11-17 0:49 ` walt
2003-11-15 1:06 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-11-15 1:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-15 10:53 ` Frank Cusack
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2003-11-13 14:44 ` Jan Harkes
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2003-11-11 14:14 ` walt
2003-11-11 14:38 ` Andrew Walrond
2003-11-11 15:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-11-11 19:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-11 20:21 ` Andrew Walrond
2003-11-11 20:38 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-11 23:52 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-12 0:19 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-11-13 10:10 ` Andrew Walrond
2003-11-13 16:27 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-13 16:43 ` Mark Mielke
2003-11-13 17:14 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-13 17:20 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-14 3:01 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-13 18:21 ` Tupshin Harper
2003-11-14 7:14 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-11-14 9:48 ` Tupshin Harper
2003-11-14 9:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-11-14 21:51 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-11-14 22:55 ` Roman Zippel
2003-11-13 19:17 ` Andrew Walrond
2003-11-13 19:28 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-13 20:57 ` Andrew Walrond
2003-11-13 21:17 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-11-14 14:54 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-14 15:00 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-14 16:24 ` Andrew Walrond
2003-11-14 16:46 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-14 17:34 ` Andrew Walrond
2003-11-14 17:43 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-14 18:17 ` Andrew Walrond
2003-11-16 5:12 ` Sven Dowideit
2003-11-18 15:30 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-18 18:30 ` Ben Collins
2003-11-18 18:42 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-18 22:53 ` Sven Dowideit
2003-11-19 0:24 ` Andrew Walrond
2003-11-19 0:38 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-11-19 10:26 ` Andrew Walrond
2003-11-19 0:49 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-19 10:45 ` Andrew Walrond
2003-11-18 18:42 ` Timothy Miller
2003-11-14 16:35 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-14 16:48 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-14 17:03 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-14 17:04 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-14 17:08 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-14 17:10 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-16 4:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-13 21:54 ` Eli Carter
2003-11-13 23:32 ` Daniel Egger
2003-11-14 9:56 ` Nick Piggin
2003-11-14 11:38 ` Daniel Egger
2003-11-15 3:02 ` Nick Piggin
2003-11-15 3:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-15 3:41 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-15 3:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-15 4:04 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-15 21:09 ` Daniel Egger
2003-11-18 9:59 ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-18 15:01 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-13 0:45 ` Ryan Anderson
2003-11-07 5:10 Larry McVoy
2003-11-07 9:53 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2003-11-09 15:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-09 15:25 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-09 15:42 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-09 16:25 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-10 1:21 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-10 13:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-11-10 16:49 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-10 16:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-11-10 17:54 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-10 17:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-10 18:27 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-10 18:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-11-10 18:52 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-10 19:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-10 19:23 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-10 19:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-11-10 19:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-10 23:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-11-11 15:26 ` Timothy Miller
2003-11-11 3:10 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-11 3:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-11 3:48 ` jw schultz
2003-11-11 4:03 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-11 7:34 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-11 15:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-11-14 5:13 ` Andrew Pimlott
2003-11-14 14:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-11-14 14:53 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-14 15:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-11-14 18:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-10 18:37 ` David Roundy
2003-11-10 18:46 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-11-09 19:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-10 1:59 ` Matt Mackall
2003-11-10 2:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
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