On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:23:35AM +0200, Derrick Brashear wrote: > > "persistent-state-with-lock-free-asynchronous-updates"-library would > > be written and used by the applications, implementing transaction-like > > updates with automated merges - taking into account the semantics of > > the data to be merged. Alas, such a library does not yet exist (or at > > least apparently is not being used :) > > I wrote one in perl (4!) many years ago. no one seemed overly interested in > the concept. There is room in OpenAFS several places for this sort of > 'decision engine'
The application writers most probably assume that "usable by 90% of the audience is enough" and quite probably it is still the majority of the users who have local home directories... :-/ The above builds up a regretful hinder for deployment of global ones :( I would like to look at your code (if it is OSS). Regards, Rune _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
