On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:12:14PM -0800, Sage Weil wrote: > Hi all, > > This is an alternative approach to atomic user transactions for btrfs. > The old start/end ioctls suffer from some basic limitations, namely > > - We can't properly reserve space ahead of time to avoid ENOSPC part > way through the transaction, and > - The process may die (seg fault, SIGKILL) part way through the > transaction. Currently when that happens the partial transaction will > commit. I like this much more than providing a journal start/stop to userland. If we can get Christoph to ack the exports we can work on the interface in general. -chris -- 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
