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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Idea for a feature
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James Blackwell |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Idea for a feature |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:28:54 -0500 |
In lists.arch.users, you wrote:
>
> > From: James Blackwell <address@hidden>
>
> > This is where the dates come into play. We can ignore the whole
> > race condition by using a wider granularity than any potential
> > race. I.E., out of "2004-12-25-04:00:45", we only consider the
> > "2004-12-25-04:00" part.
>
> There's no need for any of that.
>
> A changestap file just contains a random, hopefully unique string like
> "slIDFJoiu234njknjdf907oijkhweiornk3n4,mn". If the file for some
> region of the archive is different than it was the last time you (a
> mirror process) saw it, then you have to recurse one layer down in the
> archive. No sequence numbers, no timestamps, no
> race-condition-granularity issues.
That'll work.
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