txf

Given that Microsoft has deprecated Transactional NTFS (TxF) : Microsoft strongly recommends developers utilize alternative means to achieve your application’s needs. Many scenarios that TxF was developed for can be achieved through simpler and more readily available techniques. Furthermore, TxF may not be available in future versions of Microsoft Windows. While TxF is a powerful set of APIs, there has been extremely limited developer interest in this API platform since Windows Vista primarily due to its complexity and various nuances which developers need to consider as part of application

Background: I am aware of this SO question about Transactional NTFS (TxF) and this article describing how to use it, but I am looking for real-world experience with a reasonably high-volume enterprise system where lots of blob data (say documents and/or photos) need to be persisted once transactionally and read many times . We are expecting a few tens of thousands of documents written per day and reads of several tens of thousands per hour. We could either store indexes within the file system or in SQL Server but must be able to scale this out over several boxes. We must retain the ability to

I'm trying to wrap my head around the use of the System.Transactions namespace in C#. I've found some documentation on MSDN regarding using resource managers, but it only covers volatile, in-memory resource managers in any detail (like Transactional ). I'm basically looking for something that I can use inside of a TransactionScope, just like Transactional<> but use it for writing/modifying/deleting files on disk. Does something like this exist in the standard libs? I've read that NTFS has "TxF" now to allow transactional filesystem access - I was expecting to find something in .net that