Hi Hartmut, Felix,

I see the point, it's not useful if it's only for decoration.  It does feel 
intuitively right to have txid, if it could be used by a family of RPCs.  Might 
make for cleaner interfaces for cancellation, abandonment, (not to mention 
futures--reversibility, delegation, ...)?

Matt

----- "Hartmut Reuter" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Matt W. Benjamin wrote:
> > Hi Hartmut,
> > 
> > Does using GetODSDlocation and StoreMini as begin/end I/O RPCs
> allow
> > use of an opaque identifier to refer to an I/O transaction?
> > 
> > Matt
> > 
> 
> As Felix already said: allowing only one write at a time makes it
> unnecessary to have an identifier for the transaction. For the error
> log, however, I would keep the IP-address in the structure so that in
> case of problems you later can find out what happened.
> 
> Hartmut
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