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From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9pfuse and O_APPEND
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:02:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10812191202x639c689t5b8270ad3bb02631@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F82C3E5D-D4C2-402A-948B-B2DBA766A6EC@sun.com>

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:

> Two questions:
>   1. But before I ask this one: I don't deny that per-file append-only
>    is *extremely* useful. My question is a different one: what is
>    the danger of N clients accesing the file X in append-only mode
>    and M clients accesing it in random access mode? Could you,
>    please, give a concrete scenario?

there are no problems if you don't care about the integrity of the data.

ron



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-19 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-18 23:34 Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-18 23:57 ` Russ Cox
2008-12-19  0:03   ` ron minnich
2008-12-19  3:06     ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-19  3:26       ` ron minnich
2008-12-19  3:59         ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-19 16:44           ` ron minnich
2008-12-19 19:21             ` Anthony Sorace
2008-12-19 19:31               ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-19 19:41               ` ron minnich
2008-12-19 19:59             ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-19 20:06               ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-19 20:18               ` Charles Forsyth
2008-12-21  5:08                 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-12-19  3:03   ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-19  3:43     ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-19  3:54       ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-19  4:13         ` geoff
2008-12-19  8:23           ` Russ Cox
2008-12-19 19:49             ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-19 19:56               ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-19 20:10                 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-19 20:22                   ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-19 20:02               ` ron minnich [this message]
2008-12-19 14:21           ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-19 21:00 ` ron minnich
2008-12-19 21:32   ` Charles Forsyth
2008-12-19 21:29     ` ron minnich
2008-12-21  5:05   ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-12-21 14:45     ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-22 10:02       ` roger peppe
2008-12-25  6:04       ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-25  6:33         ` erik quanstrom

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