Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air

[Davide Libenzi]

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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