Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem [LWN.net]

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

Posted Mar 15, 2009 4:02 UTC (Sun) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem by petegn
Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

> It's all very well people ranting on about Posix allows this that and other ect but the fact of the matter is yet again the Linux community is having ALPHA quality pushed on it as distro ready.

POSIX is a standard that Linux kernel is attempting to implement. Explaining to people what it says is not ranting.

Just remember, when Firefox developers got blasted for the performance hit in in FF 3.0, it wasn't their fault. It was the fsync problem in ext3, which is still there.

Similarly this time, Ted is getting blasted for other people's bugs, partially caused by completely unusable fsync on ext3.

Finally, if you don't like using new software, then don't use it. Nobody is twisting your arm.

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