Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout

[Jörn Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 1 July 2005 14:58:39 -0500, David Masover wrote:
> Bryan Henderson wrote:
> [...]
> >What you'd really like is to fsync a multi-file unit of work (transaction) 
> >-- and not just among open files.  You'd like to open, write, and close 
> >1000 files in a single transaction and then commit that transaction, with 
> >no syncing due to timers in the meantime.  If you're really greedy, you'd 
> >also ask for complete rollback if the system fails before the commit.
> 
> Both of these are planned for Reiser4.  Or is it 4.1?

Both are pretty trivial to implement for a tree-based fs like
reiserfs.  Non-trivial is the user interface.  Not sure if sys_reiser
is the answer to that.

Jörn

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