Re: Running several instances of an fs server...

[Niels Möller]

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 07:29:07AM -0700, James Morrison wrote:
> > Alternatively, I set one translator with --writable and all others with
> > --readonly.  I only use this for booting n-hurds where the writable 
> > filesystem
> > cleans itself up before I try to read from the readonly filesystem.
> 
> I do the same, but note that this will not guarantee that the read-only
> filesystem won't be confused about the changes it sees in the underlying
> store (as it doesn't expect it to change).

It might make sense to add some sort of signaling that could be usewd
to tell the read-only filesystem server that the data has changed
below it. Would be useful in this special case, but a more common use
would be read-only removable media (i.e. cd:s).

/Niels