Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Nov 2006 02:19:05 +0100 (CET) | From | Mikulas Patocka <> | Subject | Re: New filesystem for Linux |
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> On Thu, 2 November 2006 22:52:47 +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote: >> >> new method to keep data consistent in case of crashes (instead of >> journaling), > > Your 32-bit transaction counter will overflow in the real world. It > will take a setup with millions of transactions per second and even > then not trigger for a few years, but when it hits your filesystem, > the administrator of such a beast won't be happy at all. :) > > Jörn
If it overflows, it increases crash count instead. So really you have 2^47 transactions or 65536 crashes and 2^31 transactions between each crash.
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