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As he mentions, unless you disabled the hdd's write-back cache, you had to deal with the same class of write-ordering problems anyway.
by harshreality 4y ago
As he mentions, unless you disabled the hdd's write-back cache, you had to deal with the same class of write-ordering problems anyway.
- j1elo 4y agoYeah it seems that the kind of brute force or less than ideal software-engineering style of ext2 was a perfect match for the kind of hardware qualities (i.e. very low ones) that were the target! In the end everything ended up working better, even if due to completely accidental reasons.
- tankenmate 4y agoOr maybe the decisions were a form of emergent behaviour; the developers that succeeded were the ones whose behaviour best matched the environment. The accidents ARE the reason it worked; i.e. evolution.
- lifeisstillgood 4y agoThank you - insightful :-) Perhaps that's the reason why a market succeeds under schumpeter but a planned economy (ie inside a large company) often fails
- fidgewidge 4y agoYeah once you start thinking in evolutionary terms you see it everywhere. Like why do we have this discussion via interactive documents? The web has a sort of evolutionary fitness that lucked its way into being a popular app platform.