On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Olaf van der Spek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Stewart, > > Just watched your talk "Dropping ACID" and wanted to respond, might be > interesting for others on the list too. > open, write, fsync, close, rename is not the atomic equivalent of > open, write, close. It is atomic but not equivalent as it has a big > number of assumptions / restrictions (losing meta-data, assuming > permissions, assuming same volume). So programmers don't getting it > right is to be expected. > I argued for O_ATOMIC, a way to do atomic file data replacements, but > the FS devs prefer to not solve this problem. I guess they don't care > about reliability too much. :p
Any comments? ;) -- Olaf _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
