Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261522AbVD0Ngs (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:36:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261399AbVD0Ngs (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:36:48 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:16352 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261312AbVD0Ngp (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:36:45 -0400 To: "Artem B. Bityuckiy" Cc: Ville Herva , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jamie@shareable.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> From: Andi Kleen Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:36:43 +0200 In-Reply-To: <426E4EBD.6070104@oktetlabs.ru> (Artem B. Bityuckiy's message of "Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:22:53 +0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 821 Lines: 22 "Artem B. Bityuckiy" writes: > 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. Yes it is. e.g. newer sleepycat DB has a nice library for this. It should be somewhere on your distribution. -Andi - 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/