[Swift-devel] Re: swift-falkon problem

[Ben Clifford]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Ioan Raicu wrote:

> Why could Swift not have a retry mechanism, given that it received a
> successful exit code, be more persistent in looking for the success or failure
> file, and if it doesn't exist, to try it again after some small amount of
> sleep...  this would certainly hide (and potentially solve) the race
> condition, with a persisitent enough retry mechanism, wouldn't it?

The goal is not just to find a status file; there is other stuff beign 
written to the shared filesystem and its not clear that the status files 
appearing would guarantee that the other files had appeared too.

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