From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <38745507.68EE54D2@idiom.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 11:40:39 +0300 From: Hans Reiser MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: (reiserfs) Re: RFC: Re: journal ports for 2.3? (resending because my ISP probably lost it) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Tigran Aivazian Cc: "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: Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Peter J. Braam wrote: > > I think I mean joining. What I need is: > > > > braam starts trans > > does A > > calls reiser: hans starts > > does B > > hans commits; nothing goes to disk yet > > braam does C > > braam commits/aborts ABC now go or don't > > no, that definitely looks like nesting to me. > > Tigran. It looks like joining to me. If it was nesting, you would be able to commit A without comitting B. Of course, if there is database literature defining nesting, and there probably is, then I should be ignored here. Perhaps the literature defines nesting as equivalent to what I call joining. Hans -- Get Linux (http://www.kernel.org) plus ReiserFS (http://devlinux.org/namesys). If you sell an OS or internet appliance, buy a port of ReiserFS! If you need customizations and industrial grade support, we sell them. -- 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/