Re: filesystem transactions API

Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-04-26T14:23:12Z

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.

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