On Fri, 18 Aug 2017, Stewart Smith wrote:

>
>
> On 17 August 2017 1:37:24 pm AEST, Tim Connors via luv-main 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Both XFS and btrfs enthusiastically like to silently throw any data
> >written
> >in the past 5 days on the floor when there's a power failure/kernel
> >panic,
> >so there's that commonality.
>
> See O_PONIES. Applications not using the API correctly to safely store data 
> to disk are the problem.
>
> There's mitigation in XFS for a number of years now.

Yes I know all about libeatmydata, but you'll agree the race condition
doesn't extend to 5 days after close(), right?
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