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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ORCLOSE
Date: Mon,  3 Apr 2006 18:10:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19e44c4bc4ea34bd15666846a952e9a0@quanstro.net> (raw)

how would the fs determine that the machine hosting the
client is in casters-up mode?

- erik

On Mon Apr  3 10:12:35 CDT 2006, nemo@lsub.org wrote:
> When a ORCLOSE file is created by a process at
> machine A into a FS at machine B, if the machine
> A goes away (e.g., you power it down), the file
> is not removed. This is as it could be expected, because
> ORCLOSE, IFAIK, is processed by the kernel during the cleanup
> done for the process while it exits.
>
> My question is, whouldn't it be better to honor ORCLOSE
> within the file server? (i.e., lib9p and fossil, mostly).
> This is more resilient to failures and disconnections of the
> client kernel. Otherwise, files are kept hanging around.
>
> I was about to change this for Plan B, because we use
> ORCLOSE files to announce our file trees. If this is no ok
> for Plan 9 as well, I'll use something else for our announces.
>
> thanks
>
>


             reply	other threads:[~2006-04-03 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-03 23:10 erik quanstrom [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-03 23:42 erik quanstrom
2006-04-04  1:08 ` Russ Cox
2006-04-03 15:11 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2006-04-04  0:40 ` Russ Cox

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