This is a regression

Posted Mar 15, 2009 12:57 UTC (Sun) by ikm (guest, #493)
In reply to: This is a regression by bojan
Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

> All the people here suggesting that well established standards Linux _aims_ to implement should be ignored

Gosh. What people suggest here is that standards should not be used as an excuse for unwanted filesystem behavior.

This is a regression

Posted Mar 16, 2009 0:21 UTC (Mon) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

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.