Redesigning the autopkgtest controller/workers CI system for Ubuntu and Debian

[mpitt@debian.org (Martin Pitt)]

Martin Pitt [2014-03-14  6:31 +0100]:
> But I see no documented way of doing this kind of "lock this file
> name", "get me an increased global counter", or "start a file system
> transaction" on swift, which makes swift fairly hard to use for
> concurrent writes.
> 
> How do other systems deal with that? I mean, this is *the*
> fundamental problem with multiple writers to a file system, ther
> must be some solution?

I asked on
https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/25282/how-to-create-unique-object-names/

Martin

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