From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Geo"  wrote in message news:4427669c{at}w3....
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:4426e799$1{at}w3....
>
>> TxF makes it simple for an application to protect file save operations
> from
>> system failure. To save a file safely, the application opens the file in
>> transacted mode, saves the file, and then commits the transaction. If the
>> system fails during the file save, then TxF automatically restores the
> file
>> to the state that it had before the file save began, which avoids file
>> corruption.
>
> How is this different from the journaling in W2K's NTFS?
>
> Geo.
>
>
I think the keywords in the link below are "allows all file operations
on an NTFS file system volume to be performed transactionally" . An
application through a standard API would be able to group file operations
into a transaction and commit or abort.  It appears to be yet another step
in database - file system convergence.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/transact/fs/po
rtal.asp

Transactional NTFS (TxF) allows all file operations on an NTFS file system
volume to be performed transactionally. Because transactions are necessary
to both preserve data integrity and handle error conditions reliably, you
can use TxF to develop robust solutions on the Windows platform.

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