On 2005-04-26T11:01:54, John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> wrote:

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> Jamie> No.  A transaction means that _all_ processes will see the
> Jamie> whole transaction or not.
> This is really hard.  How do you handle the case where process X
> starts a transaction modifies files a, b & c, but process Y has file =
b
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> open for writing, and never lets it go?  Or the file gets unlinked? =20

I suggest you ask Hans, reiser4 does have such a feature if I recall
correctly.

It gets a whole lot more interesting if you want the sucker to spawn
more than one mount though.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Br=E9e <lmb@suse.de>

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