Re: filesystem transactions API

From: Artem B. Bityuckiy
Date: Tue Apr 26 2005 - 09:25:22 EST


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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