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From: Sape Mullender <sape@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] QTCTL?
Date: Thu,  1 Nov 2007 12:21:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36bfc10a6570b430d295d956d832a7c2@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10711010904r317f9fd6v14a87dc2f024b0b1@mail.gmail.com>

> Why not just have a file that a client reads that lets the client know
> of changes to files.

A bit better, but the comment I just made about breaking single-copy
semantics still hold.  The point is that merely notifying the client
isn't enough.  The server should wait for an acknowledgement to that
notification (which possibly doesn't arrive until after the client has
flushed its updates from the cache).

	Sape


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-01 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-31 18:40 Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-10-31 18:56 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-10-31 19:13   ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-31 19:33     ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-10-31 19:39       ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-31 20:43     ` geoff
2007-10-31 21:32       ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-31 22:48       ` roger peppe
2007-10-31 23:35         ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-01  9:29           ` roger peppe
2007-11-01 11:03             ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-11-01 11:19               ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-01 12:11             ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-31 19:42 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-31 19:49   ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-10-31 20:03     ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-31 20:10       ` Latchesar Ionkov
2007-10-31 20:12       ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-10-31 20:17       ` Russ Cox
2007-10-31 20:29         ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-10-31 20:48           ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-31 21:23             ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-10-31 21:40               ` Russ Cox
2007-10-31 22:11                 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-31 22:26                 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-10-31 22:37                   ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-31 22:43                     ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-10-31 23:32                     ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-10-31 23:41                       ` [V9fs-developer] " Charles Forsyth
     [not found]                       ` <606b6f003ae9f0ed3e8c3c5f90ddc720@terzarima.net>
2007-11-01  1:13                         ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-10-31 23:54                   ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-01  0:03                     ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-01  1:25                     ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-11-01  1:44                       ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-01  2:15                         ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-11-01  7:34                       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-11-01  6:21                 ` Bakul Shah
2007-11-01 14:28                   ` Russ Cox
2007-11-01 14:38                     ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-01 14:41                     ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-01 15:26                     ` Sape Mullender
2007-11-01 15:51                       ` Latchesar Ionkov
2007-11-01 16:04                         ` ron minnich
2007-11-01 16:16                           ` Latchesar Ionkov
2007-11-01 16:21                           ` Sape Mullender [this message]
2007-11-01 16:58                             ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-11-01 17:11                               ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-01 17:11                                 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-11-01 17:13                               ` Sape Mullender
2007-11-01 17:38                               ` ron minnich
2007-11-01 17:56                                 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-11-01 18:01                                   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-11-01 18:52                                   ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-11-01 19:29                                     ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-11-01 23:24                                   ` ron minnich
2007-11-01 17:03                           ` Russ Cox
2007-11-01 17:12                             ` Sape Mullender
2007-11-01 17:35                               ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-01 18:36                                 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-01 17:13                             ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-01 17:16                               ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-01 17:20                                 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-01 17:52                             ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-11-01 18:00                             ` Latchesar Ionkov
2007-11-01 18:03                               ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-11-01 18:08                                 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2007-11-01 18:16                                   ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-01 18:19                                   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-11-01 18:35                                     ` Sape Mullender
2007-11-01 19:09                                       ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-01 19:07                                         ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-01 17:14                           ` Bakul Shah
2007-11-01 16:17                         ` Sape Mullender
2007-11-01 16:27                           ` Sape Mullender
2007-11-01 16:58                         ` Sape Mullender
2007-11-01 16:59                     ` Bakul Shah
2007-11-01  4:21 Brian L. Stuart

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