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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] wstat and atomic directory change
Date: Tue,  3 Feb 2015 19:51:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45fe7ac7a1dab989624aa4ed2b376ff9@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CF87C213-4BBF-44E6-93EB-0EEA9FEE477A@quintile.net>

On Tue Feb  3 01:01:02 PST 2015, steve@quintile.net wrote:

> the control file idea is a neat way of doing atomic moves.
>

control files are a good way of dealing with all kinds of exceptional behavior.

but ...

to be fair, this goes against the unix ideal of having uniform file operations.
this requires delving into the namespace to tell that the directories are still under the
same mount, and some non-uniform operations.

so, it's not without a cost.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-04  3:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-30 11:21 Giacomo Tesio
2015-01-30 14:13 ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-30 15:59   ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-01-30 20:19     ` Joel C. Salomon
2015-01-30 22:49     ` Anthony Sorace
2015-02-03  8:53       ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-02-03  9:04         ` Quintile
2015-02-04  3:51           ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2015-02-04  8:28             ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-02-04 14:06               ` erik quanstrom
2015-02-04 14:29                 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-02-04 16:30                   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2015-02-04 19:23                     ` erik quanstrom
2015-02-04 21:24                       ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-02-05  4:13                         ` lucio
2015-02-05  8:21                           ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-02-05  8:37                             ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-02-05  8:59                               ` lucio
2015-02-05  8:54                             ` lucio
2015-02-05 16:13                               ` erik quanstrom
2015-02-05  4:15                         ` lucio
2015-02-05 16:20                         ` erik quanstrom
2015-02-05 16:46                           ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-02-05 17:22                             ` Skip Tavakkolian
2015-02-05 17:20                           ` Bakul Shah
2015-02-05  4:26 sl
2015-02-05  4:26 sl
2015-02-05  8:08 ` Giacomo Tesio

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