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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: reiser4 data journalling?
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:08:57 +0400
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To: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
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Hello!

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 06:23:22PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> So you can have one 5k memory area that spans two pages, and it will act on
> them atomically?  Or does that mean that the utils are already page aligned
> by other kernel mechanisims?  Or that they'll have to use the reiser API to
> do some of the above (other than the op grouping)?

Data does not need to be page aligned for atomic operations.

Bye,
    Oleg