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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 00:15:02 -0700
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX <flx@namesys.com>, ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
>. Doing transactions on one file is 
>only the beginning - you'll find people who want transactions across file 
>boundaries etc.
>  
>
Yup, that's what reiser4 is aiming at and where things get exciting for 
version control systems and the like.  We are just missing the api code 
for it at the moment, all the infrastructure is there, and the api is in 
progress in sys_reiser4.