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Re:Freqfs: In-memory filesystem cache for Rust by remexre on Friday October 01, 2021 @11:39PM (#28725749)
Don't you need mandatory locking of files and directories, or rather powerful transactional semantics for the filesystem then?
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Re:Freqfs: In-memory filesystem cache for Rust by rektide on Saturday October 02, 2021 @12:39PM (#28729998)
A lot of filesystems have snapshots. NTFS & others have transactional capabilities. I don't regard locking as necessary or helpful when the OS can provide these capabilities.
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