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Micha Feigin writes: > I am trying to do some work on reiserfs to make it laptop-mode > compliant. After looking at the code because it was still noisy after I > thought I told correctly to be quite, raised a question that I was > hoping someone can clarify for me. > > Reiserfs has both a transaction and a commit and I was wondering what > is which. Transaction is a sequence of file system modifications that (by the virtue of file system implementation) is bound to either be completed as a whole or be aborted as a whole (this is called "atomicity"). Commit is a certain operation performed during transaction life-time to implement its atomicity. > > (I am mostly interested in this from the point of what max_trans_age > and max_commit_age affect) Take a look at the "commit" mount option of reiserfs. > > Thanks Nikita. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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