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I think you have to see that in the light of all the complaints about data loss when people moved from ext3 to ext4. Ted IIRC pushed back against that with argu
by anarazel 6y ago
I think you have to see that in the light of all the complaints about data loss when people moved from ext3 to ext4. Ted IIRC pushed back against that with arguments like yours, but eventually gave up (leading to a heuristic for detecting such cases, cf the auto_da_alloc mount option).
- quotemstr 6y agoBack then, people could point to specific examples of applications that depended on the sync-on-rename feature. What specific examples is he able to cite now? The entire discussion seems like a discussion of hypotheticals.