From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] synthetic filesystems and changing data
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:57:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f22c91a2af42dfcff1289087f933635b@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46BBC396.9040009@ec.gc.ca>
why not just tie the fid to a "file" version. then it would be easy
to handle offsets.
- erik
On Thu Aug 9 21:47:02 EDT 2007, John.Marshall@ec.gc.ca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to understand the general practice, under
> Plan 9, for synthetic filesystems for serving up a "file"
> which:
> 1) returns data that changes (quickly), and
> 2) returns data whose size is larger than the message
> size agreed upon at *version interchange.
>
> Practically, what I am wondering is:
> 1) what to do when the "file" content changes between
> multiple *read operations (assuming that the reads
> are done quickly)? Is it just tough luck for the client?
> 2) whether or not synthetic filesystems generally handle
> (or not) the offset parameter? I imagine to do this
> requires relatively static content, is difficult, or
> there is an assumption that the size of the content
> _must_ fit in the message.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-10 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-10 1:47 John Marshall
2007-08-10 1:57 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-08-10 8:13 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-08-10 9:40 ` maht
2007-08-10 6:49 ` matt
2007-08-10 12:32 ` John Marshall
2007-08-10 15:13 ` Kris Maglione
2007-08-10 15:47 ` nemo
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