On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 braam_at_cs.cmu.edu wrote:

> Almost correct.  RVM is used for Metadata -- acl's, vnode's, version
> vectors (for server replication), directory contents. This is managed
> through a transaction system, and we feel it would be very hard to do
> it without transactions, since during resolution/repair/reintegration
> many changes are being made, but one may have to back out (e.g. if a
> server crashes, or if an unexpected inconsistency arises).

just for kicks, take a look at peter chen's Rio project here at umich
(http://www.eecs.umich.edu/Rio/). my friend dave implemented a blindingly
fast transaction system called Vista on top of it; he won best paper at
ACM SOSP 1997. they have software available for FreeBSD, and the Vista
interface is similar to RVM...

-d. 

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