A great mechanism for internal objects. A lousy mechanism for external
ones, simply because the user DOES have to discern the correct final copy.
A very common problem in this area of software development is getting folks
to keep in mind the goal of not unnecessarily complicating the life of users
or providing them with more ways than necessary to get a self-inflicted
wound.
- Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Roe" <daniel.r.roe.gmail.com>
To: "AMBER Developers Mailing List" <amber-developers.ambermd.org>
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [AMBER-Developers] Backup file renaming?
> Hi all,
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Ross Walker <ross.rosswalker.co.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>> What you suggest might be a good way to address this assuming it is
>> portable
>> across all machine types - although it might be slightly overcomplicated
>> for
>> what we need here. I think just a single restart + .bak is suitable to
>> fix
>> the majority of crash issues. The key is to do it in a way that doesn't
>> hurt
>> performance - I.e. copying the current restart file to .bak then
>> overwriting
>> the .rst file is probably safest in terms of recovering from a crash with
>> an
>> intact restart file but is not good for performance. Renaming may be very
>> fast and in the noise and is probably good enough to avoid corrupting the
>> restart file if it crashes while that is happening.
>
> Why not just have two fixed restart files, <restart name>.0 and
> <restart name>.1, and alternate between the two.
> No copying, no renaming, and you'll know which is more recent since
> the time is written out at the top.
>
> -Dan
>
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