From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] what a mess the Unix world has become
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 08:20:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302100818320.23236-100000@carotid.ccs.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E46ACD7.50802@null.net>
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
>There are
> transaction-oriented filesystems (MUMPS comes to mind)
> that cluster requests until a "commit" and implement a
> well-defined rollback scheme when the commit is
> unsuccessful.
Actually at some point in the 90s NFS became like that on SunOS (well,
minus the rollback system). That was about the time that close could
return an error, meaning "remember those writes you did yesterday? Well,
some of them may not have worked out, so you probably lost data. Have a
nice day."
Needless to say, many programs did not quite grasp the concept.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-10 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-09 10:05 Aharon Robbins
2003-02-09 19:48 ` Mike Haertel
2003-02-10 9:00 ` [9fans] mpg123 Conor Williams
2003-02-10 12:02 ` Russ Cox
2003-02-10 14:14 ` Nigel Roles
2003-02-10 14:34 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-02-10 14:53 ` Axel Belinfante
2003-02-10 15:05 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-02-10 15:53 ` Conor Williams
2003-02-10 16:41 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-02-11 10:19 ` Conor Williams
2003-02-11 11:26 ` nigel
2003-02-13 9:02 ` Conor Williams
2003-02-10 18:13 ` Tad Hunt
2003-02-10 10:04 ` [9fans] what a mess the Unix world has become Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-02-10 11:58 ` Russ Cox
2003-02-10 15:20 ` Ronald G. Minnich [this message]
2003-02-11 9:29 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-02-11 10:25 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-02-10 16:19 C H Forsyth
2003-02-10 20:26 ` Ronald G. Minnich
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