Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:54:32 -0800 (PST) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air |
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> the updates shows up on kernel.org, rsync can't even hang on per-file > locks, sure it can't be coherent as a whole. > > 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. > > Ideally rsync could learn to check the sequence numbers by itself but I > don't mind a bit of scripting outside of rsync.
Wouldn't a simpler "stop-rsync -> update-root -> start-rsync" work? If you'll hit an update you will get a error from your local rsync, that will let you know to retry the operation.
- Davide
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