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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: filesystem transactions API
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:36:43 +0200
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To: "Artem B. Bityuckiy" <dedekind@oktetlabs.ru>
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"Artem B. Bityuckiy" <dedekind@oktetlabs.ru> writes:

> Jamie Lokier wrote:
>> I think I've wanted something like that for _years_ in unix.
>> It's an old, old idea, and I've often wondered why we haven't
>> implemented it.
>>
>
> I thought it is possible to rather easily to implement this on top
> of non-transactional FS (albeit I didn't try) and there is no need
> to overcomplicate an FS. Just implement a specialized user-space
> library and utilize it.

Yes it is. e.g. newer sleepycat DB has a nice library for this.
It should be somewhere on your distribution.

-Andi