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Quote: a Vesta ghost is a deleted file; a stub is a placeholder or reserved name; builds do not use ghosts or stubs

QuoteRef: heydA_2006 , p. 36



Topic:
file directory

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the [Vesta] repository does allow certain carefully limited … If the Vesta evaluator encounters a ghost or … Therefore these cases of rebinding cannot cause the … [p. 37] … Ghosts support Vesta's deletion semantics. When a user … a ghost. The ghost prevents the old name … attempting to delete a ghost has no effect. … and partial replication … A stub is a placeholder for a file … existing file or directory. If this happens, the … [Stubs and ghosts are zero-length files that cannot be read or written.]   Google-1   Google-2

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