Re: SV: RE: Re: SV: [chaos-devel] Kernel comparisons and ideas about how to run chaos

> I for one would *love* atomicity. One of my wet dreams is a fully ACID
> compliant filesystem for *nix.

The main problem with ACID is it's slow. You could not feasibly have
an ACID FS, it would kill performance. You could construct an ACID FS
on top of some SQL engine, which runs on top of a regular FS but most
applications/users don't want the performance sacrifice.


> I realize most of the key stuff like /etc/passwd are in pratice
> already 'solved'; but in general I think it is pretty clear that collback
> capability and atomicity could go a long way to robustify things at the
> general level.

Actually, I think it would go in the opposite direction. It adds
complexity and complexity is always error prone. The only application
I can think of at the top of my head where atomicity is a benifit is
firewall configuration, most other configurations doesn't benefit at
all.

// Anders