Re: filesystem transactions API

Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-04-26T14:46:07Z

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
>
> No. A transaction means that _all_ processes will see the whole
> transaction or not.
>
> It does _not_ mean that only a subset of programs, which happen to
> link with a particular user-space library, will see it or not.
>
> For example, you can use transactions for distro package management: a
> whole update of a package would be a single transaction, so that at no
> time does any program see an inconsistent set of files. See why
> _every_ process in the system must have the same view?
>
> [ If you meant that you can implement it with a user-space library
> that every process in the system links to, that's true. But it would
> rather misses the point of having filesystems in the kernel at all :) ]
>
Hmm, so the whole point to implement transactions in the kernel space is
to do the transactions in a way that nobody can see any intermediate
inconsistent state ?

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