Re: (reiserfs) Re: RFC: Re: journal ports for 2.3? (resending because my ISP probably lost it)

[Hans Reiser]

Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Peter J. Braam wrote:
> > I think I mean joining.  What I need is:
> >
> >  braam starts trans
> >    does A
> >    calls reiser: hans starts
> >    does B
> >    hans commits; nothing goes to disk yet
> >    braam does C
> > braam commits/aborts ABC now go or don't
>
> no, that definitely looks like nesting to me.
>
> Tigran.

It looks like joining to me.  If it was nesting, you would be able to commit A
without comitting B.

Of course, if there is database literature defining nesting, and there probably
is, then I should be ignored here.
Perhaps the literature defines nesting as equivalent to what I call joining.

Hans

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