Re: filesystem transactions API

Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-04-26T15:13:07Z

On 2005-04-26T11:01:54, John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> wrote:

> Jamie> No. A transaction means that _all_ processes will see the
> Jamie> whole transaction or not.
> This is really hard. How do you handle the case where process X
> starts a transaction modifies files a, b & c, but process Y has file b
> open for writing, and never lets it go? Or the file gets unlinked?

I suggest you ask Hans, reiser4 does have such a feature if I recall
correctly.

It gets a whole lot more interesting if you want the sucker to spawn
more than one mount though.

Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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