From: Lars Marowsky-Bree Subject: Re: filesystem transactions API Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:12:31 +0200 Message-ID: <20050426151231.GF7859@marowsky-bree.de> References: <20050424211942.GN13052@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050426134629.GU16169@viasys.com> <20050426141426.GC10833@mail.shareable.org> <426E4EBD.6070104@oktetlabs.ru> <20050426143247.GF10833@mail.shareable.org> <17006.22498.394169.98413@smtp.charter.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "Artem B. Bityuckiy" , Ville Herva , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:5541 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261567AbVDZPMx (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:12:53 -0400 To: John Stoffel , Jamie Lokier Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17006.22498.394169.98413@smtp.charter.net> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On 2005-04-26T11:01:54, John Stoffel wrote: > Jamie> No. A transaction means that _all_ processes will see the > Jamie> whole transaction or not. > This is really hard. How do you handle the case where process X > starts a transaction modifies files a, b & c, but process Y has file = b > open for writing, and never lets it go? Or the file gets unlinked? =20 I suggest you ask Hans, reiser4 does have such a feature if I recall correctly. It gets a whole lot more interesting if you want the sucker to spawn more than one mount though. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Br=E9e --=20 High Availability & Clustering SUSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html