On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Gorka Guardiola <paurea@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> >> Let's try to define 'decent' for this thread -- a decent fileserver is
> one
> >> on which close()s do not have any client-visible or semantic effect
> other
> >> than to invalidate the Fid that was passed to them. Lets see how many
> file
> >> servers we can think of that are 'decent': fossil, kfs, ken,
>
> Decent meant cacheable. Your meaning as nemo said... not so decent.
> cacheable != "clunk is nop"
> even further
> cacheable != "clunk can be processed asynchronously". Both concepts are
> orthogonal.
>

It might be more useful to think of it in terms of what it *does* mean.

Asynchronous clunkableness == no dependencies on ordering of clunk
processing to the next open call?

Cacheability can mean a lot of stuff depending on what is being cached, and
how such a cache becomes invalidated and refreshed.  I agree it's
orthogonal.


>
> Cathegory theory is useful for thinking about topology and other things. It
> is not abstract nonsense, only abstract. It *is* noise in this thread
> though.
>
>
>
It's tangentially related to an off to the side comment about cacheability.
 But yes it's definitely noise :-).