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Re: (reiserfs) Re: RFC: Re: journal ports for 2.3? (resendingbecause my



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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