From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4FB02A06-85AA-45F8-9334-9B956FB11F86@gmail.com> References: <35dbd2d8996bf96d65c969836bd2e172@terzarima.net> <4FB02A06-85AA-45F8-9334-9B956FB11F86@gmail.com> From: Venkatesh Srinivas Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:22:25 -0400 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e6dbe6d5a55b9f0493b3f488 Subject: Re: [9fans] A little more ado about async Tclunk Topicbox-Message-UUID: 70c98340-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --0016e6dbe6d5a55b9f0493b3f488 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Nemo wrote: > i have decent servers that wait for clunk to operate on written data once > it's complete. all octopus spoolers do that. > > Heh; when I wrote 'decent', I was recalling the old proposed QTDECENT qid type. I didn't mean to impugn your file servers; they're probably very nice people and if I met them, I'd should buy them a drink. 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, memfs, ... -- vs --0016e6dbe6d5a55b9f0493b3f488 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Nemo <nemo.mbox@gmail.com> wrote:
i have decent servers that wait for clunk to = operate on written data once it's complete. all octopus spoolers do tha= t.=C2=A0

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Heh; when I wrote 'decent', I was recalling t= he old proposed QTDECENT qid type. I didn't mean to impugn your file se= rvers; they're probably very nice people and if I met them, I'd sho= uld buy them a drink.

Let's try to define 'decent' for this thread -- a decent fi= leserver is one on which close()s do not have any client-visible or semanti= c 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, k= fs, ken, memfs, ...

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