On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 15:11 -0500, Dave Eckhardt wrote: > > A check could be put in by having venti put some sort of lock > > somewhere on the disk. But that would lead to problems if > > venti doesn't shut down properly: venti would be gone but the > > lock would still be there. > > Post an (ignored) mode 000 fd in /srv? Since nobody could open > it, it would always have one reference, and would go away when > the venti did?
Very neat! One question though: since a hostowner can change permissions on the entry later, this still doesn't offer a guarantee of a single reference, does it? Thanks, Roman.
