On 24.05.2011 17:53, Arwin Arni wrote:
>> I was hoping to slip in
>> support for avoiding those text transfers altogether where possible.
>> But I
>> ran into the obvious problems with the editor interface. (Also, I
>> became
>> concerned about the possibility of a race condition in the pristines
>> table
>> -- client says "Yep, I've got that text already!", edit continues while
>> simultaneously in some other part of the tree that text is removed, edit
>> goes to reference the supposedly redundant checksum and it ain't
>> there no mo'.)
>>
>
> Can't we increase the ref-count of the pristine node on getting the
> <add-file...> element... this way, we need not worry about a parallel
> <delete-file..> (IIUC delete-file will only reduce the ref-count, and
> the actual removal of the pristine node is taken care of after the
> entire editor drive.. atleast.. this is the way it is in my head)
<add-file> ... inc(refcount) ... commit ... ^C .... eep!
In other words, 'tain't that simple ... on the other hand, the worst
that can happen is that an unused pristine never gets removed from disk.
-- Brane
Received on 2011-05-24 18:22:10 CEST