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[jira] Commented: (TRANSACTION-12) Use NIO for file copying/moving
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TRANSACTION-12?page=comments#action_12432306 ]
Oliver Zeigermann commented on TRANSACTION-12:
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Renaming (rename-first as you call it) is already done by the current implementation.
The current fall back strategy is used as commons transaction only requires Java 1.3 which does not support NIO. It might be an option to have different implementations for pre 1.4 and post 1.4 JDKs though. Could you think of something like that?
> Use NIO for file copying/moving
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> Key: TRANSACTION-12
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TRANSACTION-12
> Project: Commons Transaction
> Issue Type: Wish
> Affects Versions: 1.2
> Reporter: Holger Hoffstätte
> Attachments: moveByRenameAndNIO.txt
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> The Mule project (http://mule.codehaus.org/) is considering adoption of commons-transaction for (among other things) file transactions. Unfortunately inspection of the code reveals that FileHelper copies files in the slowest possible way (traditional Java I/O via Input/OutputStreams). Since some of our users move lots and/or large files (hundreds of megabytes to gigabytes) we implemented file moving by rename (atomic and obviously very fast when source and target are on the same filesystem) and NIO as backup strategy (a lot less CPU usage).
> Attached is a code snippet that outlines the procedure; it would be cool if c-tx could adopt a similar strategy for moving via rename-first and copy via NIO. I do not know if and how this might conflict with c-tx's "transactional" behaviour and recovery but then again it is just a suggestion. :-)
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