Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267653AbUIBHP1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 03:15:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267721AbUIBHPP (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 03:15:15 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.198.35]:10150 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267607AbUIBHPK (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 03:15:10 -0400 Message-ID: <4136C876.5010806@namesys.com> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 00:15:02 -0700 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: David Masover , Jamie Lokier , Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives References: <20040826150202.GE5733@mail.shareable.org> <200408282314.i7SNErYv003270@localhost.localdomain> <20040901200806.GC31934@mail.shareable.org> <20040902002431.GN31934@mail.shareable.org> <413694E6.7010606@slaphack.com> <4136A14E.9010303@slaphack.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 652 Lines: 18 Linus Torvalds wrote: > >. Doing transactions on one file is >only the beginning - you'll find people who want transactions across file >boundaries etc. > > Yup, that's what reiser4 is aiming at and where things get exciting for version control systems and the like. We are just missing the api code for it at the moment, all the infrastructure is there, and the api is in progress in sys_reiser4. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/