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On Wednesday 07 December 2011 20:45:28 Duncan wrote:
> (1) Tail-packing.
ext4 will be doing something similar:
http://lwn.net/Articles/469805/
although i don't find the overhead w/out tail packing to be a deal breaker
> (3) The kernel folks don't screw with it as much as they do ext*.
> Reference the infamous ext3 data=writeback period during which reiserfs
> stayed safely data=ordered. I know people on ext3 that were wondering
> why they were losing data during that period, until I explained the
> situation and they switched to explicit data=ordered.
i have no sympathy for broken userspace code
-mike
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