Trying to figure out how to apply Charles' Rules of Argument to the situation, I realized I wrote an entire article on this topic (and linked to it from the OP)

Trying to figure out how to apply Charles' Rules of Argument to the situation, I realized I wrote an entire article on this topic (and linked to it from the OP): http://lwn.net/Articles/351422/ http://lwn.net/Articles/351422/ Short version: ext4's behavior under default mount options changed. You can't blame it on someone mis-reading the docs.