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From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] what a mess the Unix world has become
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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 08:20:07 -0700
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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