Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264184AbTKKD5o (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:57:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264215AbTKKD5o (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:57:44 -0500 Received: from www.mail15.com ([62.118.249.44]:3335 "EHLO www.mail15.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264184AbTKKD5n (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:57:43 -0500 Message-ID: <3FB05EDE.6090007@myrealbox.com> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:00:30 -0800 From: walt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031025 Thunderbird/0.4a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 903 Lines: 20 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? I know this is a really basic question, but it also seems like a really old problem which must have been solved multiple times by now. Am I really wrong about this? - 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/