how would the fs determine that the machine hosting the client is in casters-up mode?
- erik On Mon Apr 3 10:12:35 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When a ORCLOSE file is created by a process at > machine A into a FS at machine B, if the machine > A goes away (e.g., you power it down), the file > is not removed. This is as it could be expected, because > ORCLOSE, IFAIK, is processed by the kernel during the cleanup > done for the process while it exits. > > My question is, whouldn't it be better to honor ORCLOSE > within the file server? (i.e., lib9p and fossil, mostly). > This is more resilient to failures and disconnections of the > client kernel. Otherwise, files are kept hanging around. > > I was about to change this for Plan B, because we use > ORCLOSE files to announce our file trees. If this is no ok > for Plan 9 as well, I'll use something else for our announces. > > thanks > >
