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SubjectRe: soft-update/async write file systems
Hi,

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 23:58:24 -0500, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> said:

> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 17:59:09 -0600
> From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>

> The transaction routines already detect this scenario and they call a
> transaction-merge routine (which is not coded, been busy with the
> gnome-beta-1 release :-).

> Which transaction routines are these, out of curiosity? Are you working
> on a logging filesystem?

Yep. :)

Mig has a lot of the underlying basic buffer/transaction management, and
I've been doing a fairly detailed design of the commit and checkpoint
logic. It is looking like a very elegant and effective design right
now.

Basically, whenever a new transaction wants a currently locked buffer,
it just takes over ownership of that buffer, and the inclusive range of
transactions between the first and last use of the buffer get committed
to the journal atomically. Since we will be doing such a commit every
brief while (1 to 5 seconds, I think), that's no big problem.

The only special cases surround a transaction being committed having a
buffer required by a transaction which has come in post-checkpoint, and
in that case we just need to make sure that the log writer task can
prioritise the writing of these buffers to unlock them as quickly as
possible (pretty much the same as the current scenario when you have a
buffer being written out to a busy write queue).

--Stephen

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