I still need time to understand it. But my doubt is that, vi moves the old file to 'filename~' and then create a new file 'filename'. If this is the case it will have version 2, as its a new file. But still, I can think of all disasters it can cause. Let me check with Avati/Krishna about these. Regards, Amar On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:07 PM, <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe I'm missing something important here, but something isn't making > sense to me. > > When I create a file on the glusterfs mount, it gets version of "2". All > well and good. If I >> a line to it, it's version ticks up. So far so good. > > If I vi the file, add a line and save it, it's version resets back to "2"! > > What exactly is going on here? I'm sure that there is a perfectly good > explanation here (i.e. that vi removes the file and re-creates it anew), but > I just wanted to make sure this is a sane condition. Also, would this not > mean that following a disconnection, all vi-ed files would get clobbered > when the server reconnects and the file gets read?! This strikes me as > _INCREDIBLY_ dangerous. Too dangerous for any use, in fact. > > Can somebody please tell me that I'm wrong here? Because I really hope > that I am. > > Gordan > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > -- Amar Tumballi Gluster/GlusterFS Hacker [bulde on #gluster/irc.gnu.org] http://www.zresearch.com - Commoditizing Super Storage!
