Well what I was asking was if whatever patch that negates the issues described in this bug report is going to be a part of 9.04 or not. We can't expect applications to change their behavior overnight, it can take years. Certainly not even by Jaunty +3.
Would forcing all dot files to be written to disk immediately be a suitable fix? David Tomaschik wrote: > @Jeremy: > > If you look at the kernel docs, ext4 is considered stable. I personally > haven't seen a problem with several systems running ext4. It only becomes > an issue if your system is unstable and you're using software that "assumes" > ext3 (and older) behavior. > > @all: > > I believe that having ext4 "mimic" the behavior of ext3 makes it ext3 with > extents. I believe that would negate all of the purpose of delayed > allocation. Theo would be able to explain it better. > -- Ext4 data loss https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317781 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs