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Date:      Mon, 5 Apr 2004 21:51:06 +1000 (EST)
From:      Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@alumni.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Andy Sporner <sporner@nentec.de>
Cc:        freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Request for Cluster Recommendations
Message-ID:  <20040405211409.F644@guckloch.zuhause>
In-Reply-To: <40711AB9.6010602@nentec.de>
References:  <002401c419e7$76692ac0$2f01a8c0@MICHAELIWZHLNY> <987274454.20040404124312@buz.ch> <40711AB9.6010602@nentec.de>

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On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Andy Sporner wrote:

> I had a rather nice suggestion from somebody "down under" that made
> sense and I wanted to get it in.

Propably it was me, a German in Melbourne;-)

> At 20:00 (Berlin Standard time) I will release an initial release of
> FREP 2.0
>
> Somebody pointed out that It was too bad I couldn't use 'triggers'
> to driver the replication. I realized that I had sort of that kind of
> thing already, but not generic enough for ordinary use outside of
> FREP. So now it is.

Great. Congratulations!

(I am a little bit ashamed. After a while of unemployment I started to
think about some interesting things and discussed it, and when it began to
get the right shape, I've got a job and became busy and if spare time was
looming I became sick. But I hope it gets better..)

> One of the main delays was that the kern_getcwd() functionality
> in 5.0 (and 5.2) is wholly unreliable. I had to incorporate a separate
> version to make it work correctly. Normally I hate such hacks, but
> it seems that the vfs_cache method that was used was not appearing
> to be 100% accurate (at least in the kernel). Many times when I
> would try to get a full filename I got errors (path component not
> a directory) when I passed a vnode of a file in to get the path name.
> In a file replication scheme--this is not acceptable.

I'm curious to see.. It's in the vnode layer so I assume it's filesystem
independent?

Regards
Peter



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