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Linus Torvalds wrote: | | On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, David Masover wrote: | |>And that is the right solution. Not the only one, but the right one. |>Caching isn't the only thing sorely in need of transaction support right |>now. Actually, I find it hard to think of anything on Linux which |>shouldn't have transactions -- why should /etc/fstab or |>/home/david/homework be more fragile than /var/lib/mysql? | | | It's easy to talk big. | | It's damn hard to _implement_ a complex system, and make it stable and | bug-free, and support legacy applications. | | There is a reason why we do only what _must_ be done in kernel space. | | Linus
I think transactions should be done in kernel space. It's the only way to "enforce" them sanely.
Besides, I'm not the one who first suggested this transaction idea. That was Hans, and it was in the whitepaper. I don't know if it's done yet -- I think it got put off for v4.1.
But if it is going to be done anyway, doesn't it solve the consistency issue?
I can understand wanting caching to work now, but which is the priority - -- caching or transactions? I vote transactions. The consistancy of fstab is far more important to me than the consistancy of foo.tgz/bar.
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