From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geoff Oakham Subject: Re: libaal documentation: fact or fiction? Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:32:02 -0400 Message-ID: <20031008163202.GA2185@mbl.ca> References: <3F82F657.8040605@mbl.ca> <3F83B424.90107@namesys.com> Reply-To: Geoff Oakham Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F83B424.90107@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Yury Umanets Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com 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 -- PGP fingerprint: 8ADC 92E1 6782 D034 E0E3 8EF4 EA4D 25E3 C17C 48D2 "If you want to learn more about guns, get a job at [an American] convenience store or visit our website at ... " --Michael Moore