From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] venti
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:27:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <714cd9d62658c91ea12dd049c08f7c1f@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9140.1231531881@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu>
> > A check could be put in by having venti put some sort of lock
> > somewhere on the disk. But that would lead to problems if
> > venti doesn't shut down properly: venti would be gone but the
> > lock would still be there.
>
> Post an (ignored) mode 000 fd in /srv? Since nobody could open
> it, it would always have one reference, and would go away when
> the venti did?
dns tries a similar trick. unfortunately, this means that dns
doesn't like to be restarted when it's gone haywire as slay dns|rc
doesn't seem to remove dns' entry from srv.
it also assumes direct-attach storage.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-09 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-09 8:20 Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2009-01-09 9:44 ` Sape Mullender
2009-01-09 12:18 ` Richard Miller
2009-01-09 12:38 ` Sape Mullender
2009-01-09 13:39 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-09 20:11 ` Dave Eckhardt
2009-01-09 20:27 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-01-09 22:18 ` Dave Eckhardt
2009-01-09 22:27 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-09 20:34 ` Steve Simon
2009-01-09 21:08 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-04 1:51 Russ Cox
2007-10-07 20:51 ` Steve Simon
2007-07-03 4:58 [9fans] Venti Lucio De Re
2007-03-30 16:32 [9fans] venti Steve Simon
2003-02-06 1:11 Kenji Arisawa
2003-02-06 1:21 ` Russ Cox
2002-11-29 18:59 Russ Cox
2002-11-29 18:27 Russ Cox
2002-06-13 20:58 [9fans] bug or a feature? Dan Cross
2002-06-13 21:34 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2002-06-13 22:51 ` [9fans] venti Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2002-06-14 2:19 ` Sean Quinlan
2002-06-14 5:05 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2002-01-30 20:35 George Michaelson
[not found] <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2002-01-30 5:52 ` rob pike
2002-01-30 6:23 ` George Michaelson
2002-01-30 8:07 ` paurea
2002-01-30 11:17 ` Boyd Roberts
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