Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air

[Davide Libenzi]

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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