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From: Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Date: Fri,  9 Jan 2009 15:11:21 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] venti
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> 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?

Dave Eckhardt