Speed doesn't matter if you cannot trust it

Posted Mar 31, 2009 19:39 UTC (Tue) by oak (guest, #2786)
In reply to: Where competence meets judgment by man_ls
Parent article: From ext3 to ext4: An Interview with Theodore Ts'o (Linux Magazine)

I have an insanely fast file system with a really simple design:
cat >/dev/null

If /dev/null writes aren't zero-copy, it's journaled too!

The window for data retrieval is (infinitely) small though.