Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote: > On Thursday, 2010-03-18, at 7:37 , Jody Harris wrote: >> [...] > > Thanks for the bug report! This is #983. I guess I should have Cc:'ed > you on that ticket since your earlier report was part of the process > of finding the bug. > > This is actually my highest Tahoe-LAFS-hacking priority right now, and > the way I've been going about it is to write up this "StringChain" > package which I hope could be used to fix this problem. That's pretty > much done (footnote 1), and the next step is for me to write a patch > and off it to Brian for foolscap #149. (I'm not sure that StringChain > is the right way to fix foolscap #149 and I suspect Brian is even less > sure, but it is worth a try.) > > I'm hoping to get a fixed foolscap into Ubuntu Lucid so that Lucid > users don't have this problem. > > In the meantime, the work-around is not to use mutable files and to > keep your mutable directories nice and small.
Sssh, don't convince Jody not to use mutable files -- how else would we find the bugs in them? ;-) (Seriously, Jody's bug reports have been very helpful.) > Immutable files perform > much better than mutable files do, for this reason (#983) as well as a > few other reasons. They also have the handy property that they are > immutable, so you can be sure that the file contents have not changed. > Another problem with mutable files is that they break the FTP and SFTP > frontends (#680, #941). -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ http://davidsarah.livejournal.com
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