On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 12:05 -0400, Dimi Paun wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 10:33 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > We need to get to where we're doing a lot of small > > transactions rather than one so that things like power failures aren't > > catastrophic. > > That would be a step backwards in all but the power-failure scenario. > Conceptually, the transactional part of rpm is is a good thing. Now > I know we're nowhere close to ACID, but maybe we can improve on that > instead of making it even worse. > Well, it would also be good if we could get a bit more state on where we are in the transaction and record that somewhere as much as possible. It'd be nice to know that if we're past stage X that bits are on disk and we just need metadata, or somesuch. a bit finer granularity and instrumentation at the stages a pkg goes through during a transaction would be helpful to verifying our state. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
