Re: undeletion at filesystem level or in extra filesystem?

2002-10-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Bryan Wagstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm confused about the 'saving the differences' issue. Are we > considering delayed delete, automatic versioning, both, or something > else entirely? If you are keeping versions, there is no reason you have to keep N different copies of nearly-identi

Re: undeletion at filesystem level or in extra filesystem?

2002-10-04 Thread Bryan Wagstaff
I'm confused about the 'saving the differences' issue. Are we considering delayed delete, automatic versioning, both, or something else entirely? On one side I hear that we are saving diferences (versioning) and on the other I hear that we are only saving files opened with O_TRUNC, which are com

Re: undeletion at filesystem level or in extra filesystem?

2002-10-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) writes: > > My main concern is that the file update pattern open, write, close, > should be atomic when seen by other processes. I.e if some other > process opens the file for reading in the middle of the update, it > should see the previous version, independently

Re: undeletion at filesystem level or in extra filesystem?

2002-10-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Bryan Wagstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >But basically, yeah, if someone opens for O_WRONLY, writes, and > >closes, it would be nice if the old contents were cleanly saved as a > >"version". > > > > That could get really nasty when it comes to large files that are > opened/closed frequently

Re: Perl tests

2002-10-04 Thread Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 11:04:11AM -0400, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > Linking statically against libpthread is not yet supported. Glibc > uses some weak symbols to detected if it should enable multithreaded I was able to run statically linked tests from libpthread when using this script instead of