From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [Btrfs-devel] transaction ioctls
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:55:37 -0400
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To: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
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On Tuesday 22 April 2008, Sage Weil wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Chris Mason wrote:
> > Ok, really though, I seem to remember that ceph needed to do file + xattr
> > operations in one atomic shot, were there others?
>
> The transactions generally look like
>
>  write(a)
>  setxattr(a)
>  write(b)
>  setxattr(b)

Hmm, is this whole thing the atomic unit, or can a and b be done separately?

-chris