Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air

[Nick Piggin]

Davide Libenzi wrote:

> 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")

What happens if the the tree is updated while the client is fetching it?


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