Le Vendredi 21 Avril 2006 00:12, Matteo Settenvini a écrit : > If I recall correctly, it's an acronym that stands for "Atomicity, > Consistency, Isolation, Durability". > > It's a useful set of properties of many DBMSes (like Oracle, for > example), in which you have atomic transactions that can be rolled back > if aren't executed until the end correctly; transactions don't get one > in each other's way, and once a transaction has been done, it cannot be > deleted from history (logs always remain), and this protects you also > against system failures (because logs can be replayed). > > The main goal is to ensure data integrity, among other things. > I guess journaled filesystems also borrowed the idea. > > Regards,
Thank you very much ! Aldrik _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
