Revfile vs Atomicity & Dumbfs

[Martin Pool]

On 10 May 2005, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> 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 ;)

I had the idea that it enforced some of the write-once constraints.
My mistake.

A better example is all the people using semi-clueless ISPs who give
them a bit of web hosting.  Those people would like to publish
archives, and ftp may be the only way they have to get data up.

On the other hand, I hope that there will be much less need for people
to publish archives than was the case with arch.  Most people
contribute to existing projects rather than starting new ones and for
them it should be enough to just mail patches.

-- 
Martin
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