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Transactional Vista: Kernel Transaction Manager and friends (TxF, TxR)
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Windows Vista is the first general purpose consumer-grade OS that provides transactional support (ACID) for file IO and Windows Registry modification operations (these are only two of the consumers of KTM - point is, you are enabled to write your own).
In this interview, we meet Jon Cargille, the software developer who owns KTM, and Christian Allred, the software developer who owns TxF (Transactional File System). If you are curious about how KTM and TxF work and how you can leverage their functionality
in your applications on Vista, this interview is for you. We also briefly touch on TxR (Transactional Registry).
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The Discussion
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littleguru Woooot! New "Going Deep". Thanks! -
Chadk Fantastic. Going deep is ftw. This looks really good. -
Charles This was a fun interview. There are some golden nuggets of information here. For example, KTM provides an API for you to create your own RM (e.g., TxF and TxR). This is very important to understand.
Enjoy. Jon and Christian are among the best and brightest and they've created some revolutionary technologies in Vista that are specifically designed for you, developers, to innovate on Vista.
Code on,
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Cyonix Cool video
Thanks for sharing -
karnokd Very interresting.
Charles, do you plan a Going Deep in Garbage Collectors,how they work and why isn't it trivial to use them in kernel and drivers (like in Singularity) - or in transactional code? -
Charles karnokd wrote:Very interresting.
Charles, do you plan a Going Deep in Garbage Collectors,how they work and why isn't it trivial to use them in kernel and drivers (like in Singularity) - or in transactional code?
In fact, yes. -
littleguru Charles wrote:
karnokd wrote: Very interresting.
Charles, do you plan a Going Deep in Garbage Collectors,how they work and why isn't it trivial to use them in kernel and drivers (like in Singularity) - or in transactional code?
In fact, yes.
Great to hear that
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bdesmet Great video indeed! I thought some of you might be interested in the managed code story around TxF and TxR, so I've written a few blog posts on this topic that you might want to check out:
http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/search.aspx?q=txf&p=1
Have fun! KTM/TxF/TxR are worth your time
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JoshRoss Can you nest these transactions? Or intercept non-tranactionize IO? How are deadlocks handled? Just wondering... -
Charles Check out Jason Olson's blog for TxF links to resources...
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Ion Todirel
when?Charles wrote:karnokd wrote: Very interresting.
Charles, do you plan a Going Deep in Garbage Collectors,how they work and why isn't it trivial to use them in kernel and drivers (like in Singularity) - or in transactional code?
In fact, yes.