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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 23, 2009 4:56 UTC (Mon) by dedekind (guest, #32521)
Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

I'm confused. So userspace people refuse to understand that before they call 'fsync()', the data does not have to be on the disk. And "man 2 write" even says this at the end.

And now what Theo is doing - he is fixing userspace bugs and pleasing angry bloggers by hacking ext4? Because ext4 wants more users? And now we have zero chance to have userspace ever fixed?


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