[darcs-devel] Filesystem in DB, but data in filesystem

[Max Battcher]

Salvatore Insalaco wrote:
> The Cons is:
> 1) We no longer have transactional access to the data part of the
> pristine, only on the metadata part.

There are a few file systems where you can let the file system handle 
some additional transaction responsibility.  It's not a perfect 
solution, but a nice extra cushion for those that end up running on more 
robust file system.  The big one that I know of is that Windows Vista 
added atomic transactions to the NTFS file system: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_NTFS#Transactional_NTFS

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