Re: implementing soft-updates

From: Mike Fedyk (mfedyk@matchmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 18:36:31 EST


On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 12:23:37AM +0200, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:17:25PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 06:46:05PM -0300, Alexis S. L. Carvalho wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of any implementation of soft-updates over ext2? I'm
> > > starting a project on this for grad school, and I'd like to know of any
> > > previous (current?) efforts.
> > >
> >
> > Heh, ext3? ;)
>
> No. Ext3 uses journalling. Soft-updates is something different.
>

Yes, I know that... (don't for get the ";)"...)

Sorry, I don't know if anyone else has started anyting like this.

It would be interesting to see how the locking would work compared to ext3.

You might get more responces from:

ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
 -and-
ext3-users@redhat.com

Since that's where the ext2/3 guys hang out.

Mike
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