Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261661AbVDZQ2G (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:28:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261658AbVDZQZD (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:25:03 -0400 Received: from scrat.hensema.net ([62.212.82.150]:21435 "EHLO scrat.hensema.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261657AbVDZQW6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:22:58 -0400 From: Erik Hensema Subject: Re: filesystem transactions API Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:22:54 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20050424211942.GN13052@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050426134629.GU16169@viasys.com> Reply-To: erik@hensema.net User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 904 Lines: 24 Ville Herva (v@iki.fi) 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? Doesn't reiser4 do this? -- Erik Hensema - 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/