Re: HTTP protocol v2: rethunk.

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:35 AM, David Glasser <glasser_at_davidglasser.net> wrote:

> There's a lock around appending to the proto-rev file, yes. And it
> does write a bunch of little files for noderevs, directory listings,
> and props, and gloms them on at finalization time, yes. But there are
> no locks around editing the little files themselves; so for example,
> if concurrent processes make two files in a directory at the same
> time, there can be a race condition and only one will end up in the
> listing. This situation isn't possible if you only access a
> transaction from a single process (say, via the commit editor).

But if all writes go through a single process, that sort of defeats
the goal of saturating the bandwidth with parallel PUTs. Maybe it
would be a worthy goal to make FSFS safe? I know it's something we'll
have to do for libsvn_fs_bigtable.

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Received on 2008-11-06 13:55:25 CET