Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup restore from read-only file system

[dean gaudet]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Chris Connett wrote:

> Thanks for your comments.  Jumping into a new code base, I was pretty
> sure I wouldn't get it right my first shot.  I looked for the callers
> when writing this, but I took the assert to mean temp files should
> always be local, which apparently isn't the case.

tempfiles are always local to the machine with the repository... i'm just 
worried there are cases where the codepath is different for remote/local 
repo.


> But will the test be accurate without actually using a separate
> machine?  Temp filenames  generated by one process will still happen
> to be accessible by the other, where in a true remote environment that
> may not be so.  I'll assume for safety that I should use two real
> machines unless I hear otherwise.

oh i'm pretty sure testing on the same machine is fine.  it's not filename 
collision i'm worried about.

-dean