Re: filesystem transactions API

[Erik Hensema]

Ville Herva (v@xxxxxx) 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?

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Erik Hensema <erik@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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