Quoting Matt Helsley ([email protected]):
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 05:27:03PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > Matt Helsley wrote:
> > > > That said, if the intent is to allow the restore to be done on
> > > > another node with a "similar" filesystem (e.g. created by rsync/node
> > > > image), instead of having a coherent distributed filesystem on all
> > > > of the nodes then the filename makes sense.
> > > 
> > > Yes, this is the intent.
> > 
> > I would worry about programs which are using files which have been
> > deleted, renamed, or (very common) renamed-over by another process
> > after being opened, as there's a good chance they will successfully
> > open the wrong file after c/r, and corrupt state from then on.
> 
> The code in the patches does check for unlinked files and refuses
> to checkpoint if an unlinked file is open. Yes, this limits the usefulness

Oh, haha - open/mapped unlinked files.  Sorry  :)

-serge
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