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Re: (reiserfs) Re: RFC: Re: journal ports for 2.3? (resending because my ISP probably lost it)
- To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@sco.COM>
- Subject: Re: (reiserfs) Re: RFC: Re: journal ports for 2.3? (resending because my ISP probably lost it)
- From: Hans Reiser <reiser@idiom.com>
- Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 11:40:39 +0300
- CC: "Peter J. Braam" <braam@cs.cmu.edu>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, "William J. Earl" <wje@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com>, Tan Pong Heng <pongheng@starnet.gov.sg>, "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>, "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" <blah@kvack.org>, Chris Mason <clmsys@osfmail.isc.rit.edu>, reiserfs@devlinux.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, intermezzo-devel@stelias.com, simmonds@stelias.com
- References: <Pine.SCO.3.94.1000105153604.25431A-100000@tyne.london.sco.com>
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Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Peter J. Braam wrote:
> > I think I mean joining. What I need is:
> >
> > braam starts trans
> > does A
> > calls reiser: hans starts
> > does B
> > hans commits; nothing goes to disk yet
> > braam does C
> > braam commits/aborts ABC now go or don't
>
> no, that definitely looks like nesting to me.
>
> Tigran.
It looks like joining to me. If it was nesting, you would be able to commit A
without comitting B.
Of course, if there is database literature defining nesting, and there probably
is, then I should be ignored here.
Perhaps the literature defines nesting as equivalent to what I call joining.
Hans
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