From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14453.53221.477571.996579@dukat.scot.redhat.com> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:37:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: (reiserfs) Re: RFC: Re: journal ports for 2.3? (resendingbecause my In-Reply-To: <200001070125.UAA06650@jupiter.cs.uml.edu> References: <3874538A.67D675D6@idiom.com> <200001070125.UAA06650@jupiter.cs.uml.edu> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Albert D. Cahalan" Cc: Hans Reiser , "Peter J. Braam" , Andrea Arcangeli , "William J. Earl" , Tan Pong Heng , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" , Chris Mason , reiserfs@devlinux.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org, Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , intermezzo-devel@stelias.com, simmonds@stelias.com List-ID: Hi, On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 20:25:38 -0500 (EST), "Albert D. Cahalan" said: > AIX has such an API already. It is good to clone if you can. The AIX API is much more than a simple small-operation atomic transaction API, isn't it? The filesystem transactions have many properties --- no abort, predictable size, short duration --- which make a journaling engine inappropriate for use in a general purpose user-visible transaction API. --Stephen -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.nl.linux.org/Linux-MM/