X-Git-Url: https://git.arvados.org/arvados.git/blobdiff_plain/46a6199f3a40a24ee145adc390500190b17a6395..d1327f9456b561c059c18c76f63391728ce1780d:/doc/user/tutorials/tutorial-keep-mount.html.textile.liquid diff --git a/doc/user/tutorials/tutorial-keep-mount.html.textile.liquid b/doc/user/tutorials/tutorial-keep-mount.html.textile.liquid index c219544d23..73c02effbd 100644 --- a/doc/user/tutorials/tutorial-keep-mount.html.textile.liquid +++ b/doc/user/tutorials/tutorial-keep-mount.html.textile.liquid @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Within each directory on Keep, there is a @.arvados#collection@ file that does n h3. Modifying files and directories in Keep -By default, all files in the Keep mount are read only. However, @arv-mount --enable-write@ enables you to perform the following operations using normal Unix command line tools (@touch@, @mv@, @rm@, @mkdir@, @rmdir@) and your own programs using standard POSIX file system APIs: +By default, all files in the Keep mount are read only. However, @arv-mount --read-write@ enables you to perform the following operations using normal Unix command line tools (@touch@, @mv@, @rm@, @mkdir@, @rmdir@) and your own programs using standard POSIX file system APIs: * Create, update, rename and delete individual files within collections * Create and delete subdirectories inside collections @@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ Not supported: * Symlinks, hard links * Changing permissions * Extended attributes +* Moving a subdirectory of a collection into a project, or moving a collection from a project into another collection -If multiple clients try to modify the same file in the same collection, this result in a conflict. In this case, the most recent file wins, and the "loser" will be renamed to a conflict file in the form @name~YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS~conflict~@. +If multiple clients (separate instances of arv-mount or other arvados applications) modify the same file in the same collection within a short time interval, this may result in a conflict. In this case, the most recent commit wins, and the "loser" will be renamed to a conflict file in the form @name~YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS~conflict~@. -Please note this feature is in beta testing. In particular, the conflict mechanism is itself currently subject to race condiditions with potential for data loss when a collection is being modified simultaneously by multiple clients. This issue will be resolved in future development. +Please note this feature is in beta testing. In particular, the conflict mechanism is itself currently subject to race conditions with potential for data loss when a collection is being modified simultaneously by multiple clients. This issue will be resolved in future development.