From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] replica (was: ipv6)
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From: Micah Stetson <micah@cnm-vra.com>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 16:33:04 -0700
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> > How do I know if I have to schedule a new pull because I got a
> > 'partial' update?
>
> You don't, really.  That would require predicting the future.
> At the time you disconnected, there was no way to know
> that, say, foo.c was going to get changed two minutes later.

What if replica/pull complained about unexpected time
stamps?  That would at least tell the user that something
might be awry.

Micah