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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Atomic filesystem or not
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:52:11 -0700
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To: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Cc: Claudio Martins <ctpm@ist.utl.pt>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Marcel Hilzinger <marcel@hilzinger.hu>

David Masover wrote:

>
> doing atomic operations -- because a system call named "reiser4"

Maybe I should call it sys_reiser and not sys_reiser4? ;-) What about 
the name is not portable? ;-)

> is not
> portable to other filesystems. For instance, I believe someone's done a
> filesystem based on MySQL, which has atomic operations -- but would
> probably want a whole different interface for doing them.
>
> If such a library were developed, and had at least one stable backend
> (reiser4), then I think it'd be very likely for standard utils such as
> 'cp' to support it.
>
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