Re: (reiserfs) Re: journal requirements for buffer.c

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:31:23 +0400, Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> Ah, I see, the problem is that when you batch the commits they can be
> truly huge, and they all have to commit for any of them to commit, and
> none of them can be flushed until they all commit, is that it?

Exactly.  And the worst part of it is that while the transactions are
still growing and atomic filesystem operations are still running, you
can't even tell for sure exactly how big the transaction is going to
get eventually.

--Stephen