Re: libaal documentation: fact or fiction?

[Geoff Oakham <g@mbl.ca>]

Hi Yury,

Thanks for getting back to me!

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:52:20AM +0400, Yury Umanets wrote:
> Libaal has been developed as a try of standard interface between 
> corresponding FS userspace library (currently libreiser4) and 
> application that wants to use that library (currently reiser4progs).

Is this library the userland interface applications use to write to
files in atomic operations?

> BTW, why do you interested in documenting it?

A number of reasons: I'm interested in ReiserFs4 and I want to start
playing with it.  As I understand it, Reiserfs4 will offer data
journalling and plugin support.. both things I'd like to play with.
Since neither seems to have been documented yet, I thought I'd start by
attempting that.

I'm also intersted because data-journalling has the potential to become
a standard interface for Linux filesystems.. and as an outsider I was
hoping I would be able to offer suggestions on how to clean up that API
and speed up its acceptance.  Futhermore, I want to see if it's possible
to implement the equivalent functionality (at least from a programmer's
perspective) on a traditional UNIX filesystem using old-fasioned
file-locking.

Cheers,

Geoff

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