Revfile vs Atomicity & Dumbfs

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 10:21 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 10 May 2005, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> 
> > Right. And in fact sftp is easier to provide for some folk than ssh.
> > (For an example, see http://www.sourcecontrol.net/?action=pushaccount
> > which is a python sftp implementation).
> 
> I think it would be equally easy for them to run a smart server
> written in Python as to run an sftp server written in Python.  (Well,
> except that one exists now and the other doesn't.)  Indeed in many
> ways it might be preferable since they wouldn't have to (as I recall)
> put knowledge into the sftp server about the stylized ways Arch uses
> SFTP.

Theres no Arch knowledge in that server. I agree that a smart server
would be an advantage though. Damn, I shoulda grabbed a non-python
example ;)

Rob

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