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Re: (reiserfs) Re: RFC: Re: journal ports for 2.3? (resendingbecause my
- To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
- Subject: Re: (reiserfs) Re: RFC: Re: journal ports for 2.3? (resendingbecause my
- From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:37:09 +0000 (GMT)
- Cc: reiser@idiom.com (Hans Reiser), braam@cs.cmu.edu (Peter J. Braam), andrea@suse.de (Andrea Arcangeli), wje@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (William J. Earl), pongheng@starnet.gov.sg (Tan Pong Heng), sct@redhat.com (Stephen C. Tweedie), blah@kvack.org (Benjamin C.R. LaHaise), clmsys@osfmail.isc.rit.edu (Chris Mason), reiserfs@devlinux.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org, mingo@redhat.com (Ingo Molnar), torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), intermezzo-devel@stelias.com, simmonds@stelias.com
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Hi,
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 20:25:38 -0500 (EST), "Albert D. Cahalan"
<acahalan@cs.uml.edu> said:
> AIX has such an API already. It is good to clone if you can.
The AIX API is much more than a simple small-operation atomic
transaction API, isn't it? The filesystem transactions have many
properties --- no abort, predictable size, short duration --- which make
a journaling engine inappropriate for use in a general purpose
user-visible transaction API.
--Stephen
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