From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265530AbTIDVzf (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:55:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265533AbTIDVzf (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:55:35 -0400 Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.43]:8864 "EHLO mail-in-03.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265530AbTIDVza (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:55:30 -0400 From: Daniel Phillips To: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: precise characterization of ext3 atomicity Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 23:59:11 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 Cc: Andrew Morton , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <3F574A49.7040900@namesys.com> <200309042308.54002.phillips@arcor.de> <3F57B0FD.1060708@namesys.com> In-Reply-To: <3F57B0FD.1060708@namesys.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309042359.11754.phillips@arcor.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 04 September 2003 23:39, Hans Reiser wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > >I have always thought that some higher level synchronization is > >required for simultaneous writes. So Hans might as well tell his fans > >that Ext3 makes no official guarantee, and neither does Linux. > > Not sure what you mean. Nothing bad. More power to you for adding a transaction interface to Reiser4, and blazing that trail. It's totally missing as a generic api at the moment, and needs a push. Regards, Daniel