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I feel like Linus is basically just arguing in favor of the principle of least surprise. There are definitely some serious pitfalls when it comes to unix file

I feel like Linus is basically just arguing in favor of the principle of least surprise. There are definitely some serious pitfalls when it comes to unix file io, just look at for how long we lived with postgres and its broken assumptions surrounding fsync behavior on linux.

rodgerd 7y ago
> how long we lived with postgres and its broken assumptions surrounding fsync behavior on linux. You mean its assumption that the API wasn't lying about the integrity of the data it claimed to be writing? Very broken indeed.