Re: tlug: CODA distributed filesystem

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com> writes:

Darren Cook <darren@example.com> writes:

    >> a couple of days ago. The thing I wasn't clear on was what
    >> happens when two people are using the same file. My
    >> understanding was that this was allowed, and when they both
    >> save their changes back it will intelligently combine them if
    >> it can, otherwise human interaction is required.

    >> That sounds a bit dangerous. ...

Surely the automatic combination part can be disabled, or it is
possible to lock a file.  Just gotta find the right man page :D

    Frank> To me too.  Then again, it would be dangerous in a live
    Frank> shared filesystem on one machine, too.  Be that as it may,

Exactly.

    Frank> I read some of the docs about conflict resolution, and it
    Frank> sounded like an administrative headache.  If this stuff

Right.  That's what CVS is for.

    Frank> looks to be reasonably reliable, I may use it for our
    Frank> student terminals here, but we'll not be allowing shared
    Frank> write access to anything.

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