Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261634AbVDZPyZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:54:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261630AbVDZPyE (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:54:04 -0400 Received: from [213.170.72.194] ([213.170.72.194]:6541 "EHLO shelob.oktetlabs.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261576AbVDZPvp (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:51:45 -0400 Message-ID: <426E638B.9070704@oktetlabs.ru> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:51:39 +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: Trond Myklebust , John Stoffel , Ville Herva , Linux Filesystem Development , 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> <426E4EBD.6070104@oktetlabs.ru> <20050426143247.GF10833@mail.shareable.org> <17006.22498.394169.98413@smtp.charter.net> <1114528782.13568.8.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <20050426154708.GC14297@mail.shareable.org> In-Reply-To: <20050426154708.GC14297@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: 850 Lines: 20 Jamie Lokier wrote: > The problem with making them exclusive locks is that you halt the > system for the duration of the transaction. If it's a big transaction > such as updating 1000 files for a package update, that blocks a lot of > programs for a long time, and it's not necessary. Surely we'll anyway block others if we have a kernel-level transaction support? What is the difference in which layer to block? -- 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/