Garrett: ext4, application expectations and power management [LWN.net]

Here is Matthew Garrett's contribution to the ext4 debate. Not for anybody who is offended by profanity. "Dear filesystem writers - application developers like writing lots of tiny files, because it makes a large number of things significantly easier. This is fine because sheer filesystem performance is not high on the list of priorities of a typical application developer. The answer is not 'Oh, you should all use sqlite'. If the only effective way to use your filesystem is to use a database instead, then that indicates that you have not written a filesystem that is useful to typical application developers who enjoy storing things in files rather than binary blobs that end up with an entirely different set of pathological behaviours."

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