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Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Posted Mar 13, 2009 16:19 UTC (Fri) by ajross (subscriber, #4563)
In reply to: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem by rsidd
Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Agreed. What's the point of putting all these fancy journaling and reliability features into a file system if they don't work by default? I mean, hell, we could lose data after a system crash with ufs in 1983. Why bother with ext4?

Hiding behind POSIX here is just ridiculous. POSIX allows this absurd lack of reliability not because it's a good idea, but because filesystems available when the standard was drafted can't support it.


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