Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:01:24 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air |
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 12:13:00AM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > For transparency, I would change the file contents to "updating" > during an update, instead of the even-odd thing. I think this will > make it more obvious to people how to use it properly.
we've more solutions now. The file contents to "updating" would work too but I believe it would be by far the most complicated, the md5sum has the advantage of valiating the file contents too and it only requires 1 file update to be atomic, no matter how the upload of the data paylod happens, so I tend to like it most even if it only works probabilitsically (but it's sure safe enough).
However I understand Larry has no real interest in helping us to rsync a known to be coherent copy of the repository (very understandable from his own business standpoint), so I guess this is all wasted time, and we've to live with an heuristic like:
1:rsync sleep 60 rsync -> if something changed goto 1
I doubt Peter can provide the coherency guarantee with the md5sum on his side, unless it's Peter fetching the update of the scm data, and not the other way around. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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