Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261545AbVDZOOl (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:14:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261534AbVDZOOl (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:14:41 -0400 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:6057 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261539AbVDZOOe (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:14:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:14:26 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Ville Herva Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: filesystem transactions API Message-ID: <20050426141426.GC10833@mail.shareable.org> References: <20050424211942.GN13052@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050426134629.GU16169@viasys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050426134629.GU16169@viasys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 985 Lines: 25 Ville Herva wrote: > Apparently, Windows Longhorn will include something called "transactional > NTFS". It's explained pretty well in > > http://blogs.msdn.com/because_we_can/ > > Basically, a process can create a fs transaction, and all fs changes made > between start of the transaction and commit are atomical - meaning nothing > is visible until commit, and if commit fails, everything is rolled back. > > Sound useful... Although there are no service pack installs that could fail > in Linux, the same thing could be useful in rpm, yum, almost anything. > > What do you think? 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. -- Jamie - 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/