> But, userland expects things not to be undone. Picture two procs > operating in a directory. One proc calls fsync and gets assurance from > the FS that things are on disk. The other proc calls rollback and undoes > the fsync. The posix API isn't built around this. Right, but it's not out of the question to dedicate a filesystem to a single application. This is reasonably common even with LVMs. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
