> The author is confusing atomicity techniques with durability techniques. No, the author isn't confusing anything. The author is describing a controversy in t

> The author is confusing atomicity techniques with durability techniques. No, the author isn't confusing anything. The author is describing a controversy in the linux community, and presenting the arguments being made in that controversy for you, the reader, to evaluate. It's called journalism. I happen to agree with you that it was a sort of silly controversy... but the controversy was very real. > There is no such controversy. This is a pure hallucination. What a bizarre article. There factually was controversy on the mailing list. It's history, it happened. That's what the article is about.