I know about it, it's great!




Dug Song writes:
 > 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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