> hello,
>
> i've been reading over some of the xfs papers, and i noticed the following
> in "xFS project architecture, October 8, 1993":
>
> 3.3 xFS Growth Path
>
> In the long run, we expect to add user-level transactions to the file
> system, at which time selected user data will be logged along with the
> filesystem metadata. This feature will make it practical for user
> applications to easily implement databases and database-like systems on
> top of this file system.
I think you have found a mention of something long since lost in the mists
of time here at SGI. No on is thinking about this at all so far as I know.
Steve
>
> is this essentially logged writes? does xfs have any support for
> journalling written file data? please let me know if you know of anyone
> who's working on it, or if you understand what pitfalls would need to be
> addressed to make it possible.
>
> thanks,
> aaron
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