--- Martin Pool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 22:25 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
them locked. With file creation, instead of file locking, we can look
at the date the file was created, and choose to ignore its existence if
it is too old.
These seems like an
vs. NFS lock files.
them locked. With file creation, instead of file locking, we can look
at the date the file was created, and choose to ignore its existence
if
it is too old.
These seems like an awefully kludged hack. All that is needed is a
semaphore that is always correct.
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distcc
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 12:49 -0700, Donohue, Michael wrote:
This is enough to convince me that NFS locking isn't hurting us at
PayPal, anyway. What exactly are the issues that arise elsewhere?
The main problem is that many people have NFS half-working, so that file
IO works but locks don't
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From: Martin Pool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 6:18 AM
To: Donohue, Michael
Cc: Daniel Kegel; distcc@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [distcc] Local vs. NFS lock files.
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 12:49 -0700, Donohue, Michael wrote:
This is enough to convince me that NFS
: Martin Pool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 6:18 AM
To: Donohue, Michael
Cc: Daniel Kegel; distcc@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [distcc] Local vs. NFS lock files.
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 12:49 -0700, Donohue, Michael wrote:
This is enough to convince me that NFS locking
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 22:25 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
them locked. With file creation, instead of file locking, we can look
at the date the file was created, and choose to ignore its existence if
it is too old.
These seems like an awefully kludged hack. All that is needed is a
--- Donohue, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[... snip ...]
This is enough to convince me that NFS locking isn't hurting us at
PayPal, anyway. What exactly are the issues that arise elsewhere?
Doing file locking over NFS simply didn't work for us here at Marconi -- with
our older Solaris
