Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Idea for a feature

[James Blackwell]

In lists.arch.users, you wrote:
>
>     > From: James Blackwell <address@hidden>
>
>     > This is where the dates come into play. We can ignore the whole
>     > race condition by using a wider granularity than any potential
>     > race. I.E., out of "2004-12-25-04:00:45", we only consider the
>     > "2004-12-25-04:00" part.
>
> There's no need for any of that.
>
> A changestap file just contains a random, hopefully unique string like
> "slIDFJoiu234njknjdf907oijkhweiornk3n4,mn".  If the file for some
> region of the archive is different than it was the last time you (a
> mirror process) saw it, then you have to recurse one layer down in the
> archive.  No sequence numbers, no timestamps, no
> race-condition-granularity issues.

That'll work.
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