Subject: [DGD] Re: another question about clones
From: dgd at list.imaginary.com (Erwin Harte)
Date: Thu Jan 8 07:35:01 2004

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:29:54PM +0100, Bart van Leeuwen wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Par Winzell wrote:
[...]
> > My suggestion is that you let the master copy of the object keep track
> > of all its clones, possibly using a mapping of mappings.
> 
> This is workable and is what I use right now.
> Actually, each 'master' only has to have an array of all its clones, you
> can track all the masters with some kind of daemon still, the same daemon
> can be used to track inheritance of course.

Beware of what will happen when you have more clones of one particular
master object than fits in status()[OST_ARRAYSIZE], which is why Par
mentioned the mapping of mappings. :)

Erwin.
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Erwin Harte