From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 09:55:57 +0200
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On Thursday 02 September 2004 09.15, Hans Reiser wrote:
> 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.

Hope that is the same as or implied XA-support. Having to syncrhonized file 
updates with database transactions is not an uncommon problem. 

-- robin
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