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This is a regression

This is a regression

Posted Mar 16, 2009 0:21 UTC (Mon) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: This is a regression by ikm
Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

The problem with ignoring the standards is related to the applications, not the filesystem behaviour. ext4 implements POSIX specs just fine, both with and without the patches destined for 2.6.30. It is the applications that do not call fsync before rename that are ignoring the standard.


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