[Ocfs2-tools-devel] [PATCH 37/39] ocfs2_controld: Open and close checkpoints

[Mark Fasheh]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:06:54PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> 	So, if our process decides it is first, tries to create the
> checkpoint, and gets EEXIST, that means another process somewhere has
> already created it.  Now, if that other process is exiting, our retries
> should allow us to eventually create the checkpoint.  But if that other
> process never exits, we can't continue.

Ok... I suppose we can adjust the retry timeouts later if we see them as
being too low in practice.

So, s-o-b on that patch that.
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh