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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9p vs http
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:29:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8ff7a4432b9863d1a17f11648c2b370@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=2G2+9T=OUJk3R+VvU5kVsP-vyCVBmY2BnhXno@mail.gmail.com>

> if you mount onto one, you'll see the mounted files
> on the other.
>
> gorka was talking about identifying files from their qid.
> the version number doesn't help in identifying the file -
> someone could have modified the file 35 times between
> stats.

what definition of "file" are you using?  you've rejected the
definition that "file" is identified uniquely by path.  you've
also rejected the definition that file is identified uniquely
by qid.

> anyway, even if the version number is the same, the contents
> may be different.

i claim that a fs with this behavior would be broken.  intro(5)
seems to agree with this claim, unless i'm misreading.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-15 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-15  3:25 Sam Watkins
2010-11-15  4:20 ` John Floren
2010-11-15  4:26   ` Bruce Ellis
2010-11-15  5:16   ` Sam Watkins
2010-11-15  5:26     ` John Floren
2010-11-15 14:09     ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-11-15 14:15       ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-11-15 15:37         ` roger peppe
2010-11-15 16:45           ` C H Forsyth
2010-11-15 16:37             ` roger peppe
2010-11-15 16:48               ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-15 17:02                 ` roger peppe
2010-11-15 19:29                   ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-11-15 21:38                     ` roger peppe
2010-11-16  1:18                       ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-16 12:12                         ` roger peppe
2010-11-16 15:56                           ` Charles Forsyth
2010-11-16 16:04                             ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-16 16:32                               ` Charles Forsyth
2010-11-16 17:11                                 ` roger peppe
2010-11-15 15:44 ` David Leimbach
2010-11-15 15:55   ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-11-15 15:57     ` David Leimbach
2010-11-15 18:44 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-15 19:00   ` Dan Adkins
2010-11-15 22:18     ` Yaroslav
2010-11-15 22:34       ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-16 12:42     ` Russ Cox

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