Transactional XFS?

Dave Chinner david at fromorbit.com
Wed Feb 15 18:22:37 CST 2012


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 08:15:46PM +0100, Grozdan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just finished watching the excellent speech of Dave Chinner at
> linux.conf.au and I must say I'm impressed by the recent improvements
> to XFS. Towards the end of the talk, Dave talked about upcoming
> improvements on Metadata reliability and other features. What I'm
> wondering about is if there are any plans in making XFS transactional
> (fully atomic) like it is the case with recent NTFS versions on
> Windows Vista and higher?

What do you mean by "fully atomic"? NTFS is not fully atomic - it
doesn't journal data so can lose data on a crash - so I'm not sure
what you mean here....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com



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