Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!cs.tcd.ie!amjudge From: amjudge@cs.tcd.ie (Alan Judge) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Distributed Transaction support under Unix. Keywords: transaction unix Message-ID: <117@csaran.cs.tcd.ie> Date: 6 Jul 88 14:02:56 GMT Reply-To: amjudge@cs.tcd.ie (Alan Judge) Organization: Computer Science Department, Trinity College, Dublin Lines: 19 I am investigating/implementing a distributed transaction toolkit under Unix (lock manager,write-ahead log, recovery etc...) and I am looking for information/pointers to papers on this general topic and in particular the following: 1) Use of fsync() (for systems that have it) vs. use of raw disk partitions and any other techniques for stable write-ahead logging. 2) Efficient systems for implementing a lock-manager outside of the kernel. 3) Bypassing kernel buffering to allow direct dbms buffering. 4) Any information which specifically relates to the implementation of transactions and transaction support under UNIX. Any information will be most appreciated. Thanks in advance, Alan Alan Judge, Distributed Systems Group, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. amjudge@cs.tcd.ie ...!uunet!mcvax!cs.tcd.ie!amjudge