Comments on: the symlink trick http://www.xcombinator.com/2008/04/04/the-symlink-trick/ making the human scalable Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:43:12 -0700 hourly 1 By: Nate Murray http://www.xcombinator.com/2008/04/04/the-symlink-trick/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Nate Murray Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:14:50 +0000 http://www.xcombinator.com/2008/04/04/the-symlink-trick/#comment-35 @Matt: I guess it could be. Then it could be called "the mv trick". Which quickly starts to look like less of a trick and more like "common-sense". @Matt: I guess it could be. Then it could be called “the mv trick”. Which quickly starts to look like less of a trick and more like “common-sense”.

]]> By: Matt Pulver http://www.xcombinator.com/2008/04/04/the-symlink-trick/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Matt Pulver Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:21:58 +0000 http://www.xcombinator.com/2008/04/04/the-symlink-trick/#comment-34 Could this be simplified by the following steps? 1) index.html is a regular file. 2) Generate index.html.new. 3) mv index.html.new index.html. This should still avoid any "cache hole" due to the atomicity of mv. Someone also suggesting this on Conover's blog. Could this be simplified by the following steps?

1) index.html is a regular file.
2) Generate index.html.new.
3) mv index.html.new index.html.

This should still avoid any “cache hole” due to the atomicity of mv. Someone also suggesting this on Conover’s blog.

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