Re: [Xen-devel] clarification of xen Wiki article

[Linda <lindaj@xxxxxxxx>]

On 6/4/2015 3:58 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-06-03 at 09:24 -0600, Linda wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >       I was reading
> >
> > http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XenBus
> >
> > In the section on Store Organization, there is the statement
> > "Information should not be replicated in the store and required to be
> > consistent "  I'm not sure what that means.
> >
> > Can anybody clarify this for me, please?
> This came from the old wiki, so the history is unclear.
>
> I suppose it could mean either:
>
>          If you replicate information in xenstore then you should not
>          expect it to be consistent
>
> or
>
>          Do not replicate information, do not require information to be
>          consistent.
>
> But let me turn the question around: What are you actually trying to
> achieve? i.e. what is causing this ambiguous and confusing statement to
> be a concern for you.
Sometime soon I will be writing a front- and back- end for the 9p fs 
protocol.  (My Outreachy project).  My goall is
to understand where drivers sit logically and physically, so I know what 
I'm doing.  Part of this is to understand Xenbus and Xenstore.
When I know too little, I read carefully, and flag anything I don't 
understand.  For now, I'll ignore this statement.
Thanks, Ian.

Linda Jacobson
> Unless the author or someone else in the know speaks up I would propose
> to remove this text from the wiki.
>
> Ian.

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