Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:22:17 -0800 (PST) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air |
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, 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?
This is even simpler I believe. If you happen to fetch it, you restart the rsync. Peter ? (maybe the name LOCK should be replaced by something more "uniq")
- Davide
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