On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 03:14:08PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> something is wrong. I think we need extra VM infrastructure to deal
> reliably with this: both ext3 and reiserfs will be hurt by the need
> to build whole transactions before committing stuff to disk, as we
> may run out of memory mid-transaction while the rest of the
> transaction is still pinned.
Why does the transaction have to be maintained in memory? What's the big
deal with eating up journal space for a transaction that may be aborted
anyway? As long as it's not marked committed, upon a possible recovery,
things should roll back automatically.
mrc
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