On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 16:42, Martin Langhoff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> wrote: >> I actually would have appreciated more feedback when I asked for it >> some months ago. Anyway, I trust this layout change will simplify >> things for you at the end. > > Sorry, I probably hid at the sight of "Journal rewrite proposal".
You got distracted with shiny stuff! > There were several in the air. The changes you have made are good, I > just didn't know that one of the journal reimplementations had > actually gone ahead :-) Well, shipping the old DS wasn't really an option, so I had to go on with my work even if it risked being dumped further in the release cycle. > Is it possible for you to add a single file that says the "journal > storage" version at the root of it? Something like > > $ cat .sugar/default/datastore/store/format > 2 We actually had it already, have updated the wiki page with info about it. http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/DatastoreRewrite > That would make things a ton easier for ds-backup. ds-backup client > can read that file and tell the server that it's a "format 2" backup, > so the server can re-org the files before the client rsyncs across... > > Without something like that, an upgrade to a new format in a large > school would swamp RF for days... Sounds good, I guess you can do the reorg with hard links in the same script where we had the metadata exported to json. Regards, Tomeu > m > -- > [email protected] > [email protected] -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
