From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: precise characterization of ext3 atomicity
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 23:59:11 +0200
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On Thursday 04 September 2003 23:39, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Daniel Phillips wrote:
> >I have always thought that some higher level synchronization is
> >required for simultaneous writes.  So Hans might as well tell his fans
> >that Ext3 makes no official guarantee, and neither does Linux.
>
> Not sure what you mean.

Nothing bad.  More power to you for adding a transaction interface to Reiser4, 
and blazing that trail.  It's totally missing as a generic api at the moment, 
and needs a push.

Regards,

Daniel

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