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This. You can't break a fundamental assumption without providing it's replacement, and call anyone else stupid. "A centimeter is no longer based on anything an
by Brian_K_White 1y ago
This. You can't break a fundamental assumption without providing it's replacement, and call anyone else stupid.
"A centimeter is no longer based on anything and has an unpredictable length. Rulers always did stupid things relying on that assumption."
- the_mitsuhiko 1y ago> You can't break a fundamental assumption without providing it's replacement, and call anyone else stupid. Sure, within the bounds of what's documented you are right. However tar is going beyond what either standard or Linux guarantee so a lot of bets are off. The guarantee that tar wants is not given by any FS that recycles inodes and most importantly, tar already completely disregards the file-system locality when network drives are involved. The actual issue here is that both tar and Linux are just in a tough situation because a) the POSIX spec is problematic b) no alternative API exists today. Something has to give.