Re: filesystem transactions API

Andi Kleen
2005-04-27T13:36:48Z

"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