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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch checked out revision becomes corrupt
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Ollivier Robert |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch checked out revision becomes corrupt |
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Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:42:38 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.6i |
According to Thomas Bleher:
> I don't know if it really matters speed-wise, but it may be a good idea to
> teach tla to store temporary files out of tree (configurable of course),
> so the user can choose /tmp or a ram disk when working on NFS.
That would open up windows of race conditions because when a temporary file
is renamed/copied, link(2) can not be used to insure atomicity (this is a
general comment, I've not looked at how tla handles that).
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