Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix copying/moving of metadata where source/dest metafile are not yet read

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 16:42 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> The attached patch tries to fix moving/copying of metadata if the source
> or destination metafile are not yet read. I'd like to get some feedback
> whether the overall architecture/resolution proposal looks sane. Maybe
> people familiar with async APIs do see some shortcomings/issues?
> 
> One question remains, though:
> What should we do if the metadata reading fails? For now, the copy
> process stays in pending_copies, possibly forever.

This looks good. Could you commit it with some additional comments at
the top about the dependency problems we discussed in this thread, so
they won't be forgotten if anyone works on this later.

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