On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Enrico Weigelt <weig...@metux.de> wrote: > To come back to the original question, I'd like to know which concrete > realworld problems should be solved by that. One thing an database-like > transactional filesystem (w/ MVCC) would be nice is package managers: > we still have the problem that within the update process there may be > inconsistent states (yes, this had already bitten me!) - if it would > be possible to make an update visible atomically, that would be a > big win for critical 24/7 systems. > > My approach to this would be an special unionfs with transactional > semantics (I admit: no idea how complex it would be implementing this)
A transaction to update multiple files in one atomic go? Nah, this request is for just a single file, although a future extension to multiple files shouldn't be too hard. Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=ur3avv65qfbo+-074fons__8pkq=5zwljm...@mail.gmail.com
