Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:52:43 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) Re: LVM / Filesystems / High availability |
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On Thu, 25 Jun 1998 00:02:25 +0200 (MET DST), MOLNAR Ingo <mingo@valerie.inf.elte.hu> said:
> and, persistant data is always a pain as it doesnt go away after > reboot, and i'm wondering wether we should provide a generic > framework to do reliable atomic operations on persistant data > (transactions). Otherwise we would just end up doing our own little > imperfect transaction engine, within fdisk, within ckraid, within > JFS/ext3fs/reiserfs. One thing is sure, the situation (ie. the size > of persistant data) gets worse and worse :)
The ext2 journaling design has a fairly portable core which will be in linux/fs, not linux/fs/ext2. The portable section includes the transaction/buffer management, writeback ordering and log writing. Only the actual generation of transactions will be ext2-specific.
--Stephen
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