Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261554AbVDZOXM (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:23:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261551AbVDZOXM (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:23:12 -0400 Received: from [213.170.72.194] ([213.170.72.194]:53900 "EHLO shelob.oktetlabs.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261550AbVDZOW4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:22:56 -0400 Message-ID: <426E4EBD.6070104@oktetlabs.ru> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:22:53 +0400 From: "Artem B. Bityuckiy" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Fedora/1.7.6-1.3.2 X-Accept-Language: en, ru, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Ville Herva , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: filesystem transactions API References: <20050424211942.GN13052@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050426134629.GU16169@viasys.com> <20050426141426.GC10833@mail.shareable.org> In-Reply-To: <20050426141426.GC10833@mail.shareable.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 828 Lines: 22 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. -- Best regards, Artem B. Bityuckiy Oktet Labs (St. Petersburg), Software Engineer. +78124286709 (office) +79112449030 (mobile) E-mail: dedekind@oktetlabs.ru, web: http://www.oktetlabs.ru - 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/