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There"s no efficiency requirement on atomicity. Who said we need POSIX filesystem semantics anyway? Is it so important we should trade scalability? Obviously th

by alayne 12y ago

There"s no efficiency requirement on atomicity. Who said we need POSIX filesystem semantics anyway? Is it so important we should trade scalability? Obviously that wasn"t the s3 design choice.

mateuszf 12y ago
Filesystems users (developers) already assume that renames are fast. Changing the mode now would mean that some of the applications would seem like blocked or could behave strangely. S3 users already know and should handle that.
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