From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: ritesh@cs.unc.edu
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>,
"Artem B. Bityuckiy" <dedekind@oktetlabs.ru>,
Ville Herva <v@iki.fi>,
Linux Filesystem Development <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: filesystem transactions API
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:50:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050426155006.GD14297@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc67f8b705042608296e4abcb8@mail.gmail.com>
Ritesh Kumar wrote:
> I was wondering if it was also important to commit the changes to
> persistent storage once the transaction has been completed or is it
> just important that all processes see the changes atomically. I mean,
> is it also important that before any of the processes see the result
> of the transaction, or before the 'transacting' process knows the
> transaction is complete, the changes must be flushed to persistent
> storage? That would be all the more reason to implement it in kernel
> space...
They are different kinds of transaction, that's all. The kernel could
provide either kind, or both.
A logical way to offer both would be to include
fsync/fdatasync/fdatasync_range operations in a transaction.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-26 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-24 20:08 [PATCH] private mounts Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-24 20:13 ` Al Viro
2005-04-24 20:45 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-24 20:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-24 20:50 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-24 20:54 ` Al Viro
2005-04-24 20:59 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-24 21:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-24 21:12 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-24 21:06 ` Al Viro
2005-04-24 21:15 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-24 21:19 ` Al Viro
2005-04-24 21:29 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-24 21:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-25 7:10 ` Jan Hudec
2005-04-25 9:58 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-25 11:45 ` Jan Hudec
2005-04-30 8:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-30 9:25 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-30 9:42 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-30 10:14 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-30 14:36 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-30 15:59 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-30 16:42 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-30 17:07 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-30 18:20 ` Olivier Galibert
2005-04-30 23:58 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-05-01 2:39 ` Ram
2005-04-30 23:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-05-01 5:56 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-01 6:39 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-01 15:41 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2005-05-11 9:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-05-11 10:42 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-24 21:43 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-25 7:14 ` Jan Hudec
2005-04-27 9:14 ` Helge Hafting
2005-04-25 9:48 ` Olivier Galibert
2005-04-25 16:37 ` Tim Hockin
2005-04-30 8:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-25 21:09 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-04-26 13:46 ` filesystem transactions API Ville Herva
2005-04-26 14:14 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-26 14:22 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-04-26 14:32 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-26 14:46 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-04-26 15:19 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-26 15:01 ` John Stoffel
2005-04-26 15:12 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-04-26 15:19 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-26 15:29 ` Ritesh Kumar
2005-04-26 15:50 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2005-04-26 16:44 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-26 22:44 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-04-26 15:47 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-26 15:51 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-04-26 15:56 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-26 16:01 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-04-27 9:14 ` Jan Hudec
2005-04-26 15:24 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-26 17:22 ` Diego Calleja
2005-04-26 17:38 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-27 9:34 ` Jan Hudec
2005-04-27 13:43 ` Ville Herva
2005-04-27 15:17 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-26 15:40 ` Charles P. Wright
2005-04-26 16:07 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-04-26 17:22 ` Charles P. Wright
2005-04-27 9:37 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-04-27 13:36 ` Andi Kleen
2005-04-26 14:25 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-24 21:38 ` [PATCH] private mounts Jamie Lokier
2005-04-24 22:20 ` Ram
2005-04-24 22:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-25 6:00 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-25 6:41 ` Ram
2005-04-25 9:55 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-25 7:22 ` Jan Hudec
2005-04-25 10:08 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-25 15:20 ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-25 19:07 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-26 9:29 ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-26 14:07 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-28 13:28 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2005-04-28 19:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-28 13:47 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2005-04-28 19:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-28 19:39 ` Ram
2005-04-28 22:08 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-29 7:57 ` Ram
2005-04-29 14:13 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-04-29 14:42 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-04-29 14:50 ` Question about current->namespace and check_mnt() Jamie Lokier
2005-04-30 8:33 ` [PATCH] private mounts Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-30 16:47 ` Ram
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