--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm wondering what happens when several instances of a filesystem > > server (with the same device as a parameter) run on a machine? In other > > words, what happens to the underlying data? How is data consistency > > handled? > > AFAIK this isn't handled at all. Why do you want to do this? >
This can be handled. There is no problem if you attach all the translators in readonly mode, --readonly. However, usually this doesn't do what you want. 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. > > Since filesystems can be `mounted' in users directories, serveral users > > of the same machine are very likely to mount the same filesystem in > > their own home dir, so that's an important issue. > This isn't true because users currently cannot get the device master port for the physical devicce. > A user will not (in most cases) 'mount' a disk stored filesystem which is > stored on a device or partition, for example (and it will not have the > permissions to do this). The user can 'mount' a filesystem stored in a file > (this is called a loopback device in linux). > > Most users will only mount network filesystems or special purpose > filesystems. > > > ===== James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 2A co-op http://hurd.dyndns.org Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
