On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Nikita Danilov wrote:
>> Note that if the system crashes while files are in active use, you are
>> likely going to have semantic corruption of the file contents regardless of
>> what filesystem you are running.
>
> Reiser4 is going to provide user visible transactions (not full ACID
> transactions, though), but not in 4.0. This will allow applications to
> preserve high-level semantic integrity also.

  Cool.  That will be nice.  Of course, user programs have to take advantage
of that.  Basically, if the system crashes, you're already in trouble -- we
can attempt to minimize the fallout, so to speak, but the fact that the
system just blew up is rather major in itself.  :-/

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