On 16/05/16 14:47, Reuben Thomas wrote:
On 16 May 2016 at 14:42, Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote:
On 16/05/16 14:15, Reuben Thomas wrote:
Did this get anywhere?
Nothing public unfortunately.
Are there difficulties one might be able to help with?
I just don't have the time at present to complete this.
I did implement ACID file replacement using POSIX APIs a while ago in:
https://github.com/pixelb/crudini
The commit messages there have details on fsync()ing requirements etc.
Implementation in C in coreutils could also use other APIs where available
like renameat2(..., RENAME_EXCHANGE) and exchangedata() etc.
I noticed XFS_IOC_SWAPEXT but that's currently hardcoded
to support only same sized replacements (for defragment apps).
I was thinking of providing a wrapper for exchangedata() in gnulib,
which could be leveraged where available or falling back to
the current POSIX APIs.
thanks,
Pádraig
