Coda File System

Re: Strong Connected

From: Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 15:37:12 -0500
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 07:50:29AM -0300, Paola Scherman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can somebody answer me a perhaps silly question?
> 
> When I am strongly connected and write to a file. But another client (also
> strongly connected) updates the file while I was having the file open.
> What does it happen when I close the file? Does my file overwrites the other
> one? Or does it arrises a conflict when I close the file and Venus sends the
> file to the server?

With Coda you get a local-global conflict on the close, since the
version vector of the server copy is not what the client expected.

(AFS would overwrite the file)

Jan
Received on 2000-01-18 15:43:59