Ext4 Data Losses Explained, Worked Around 421
ddfall writes "H-Online has a follow-up on the Ext4 file system — Last week's news about data loss with the Linux Ext4 file system is explained and new solutions have been provided by Ted Ts'o to allow Ext4 to behave more like Ext3."
LOL: Bug Report (Score:5, Funny)
User: My data, it's gone!
EXT4:"Ext4 developer Ted Ts'o stresses in his answer to the bug report that Ext4 behaves precisely as demanded by the POSIX standard for file operations."
Solution: WORKS AS DESIGNED
Show some respect! (Score:5, Funny)
That's General Ts'o to you!
Re:the workaround is bad design (Score:5, Funny)
But... those of us who learned the Ancient And Most Wise ways always triple-sync. We also sacrifice Peeps and use red food colouring in voodoo ceremonies (hey, it really is blood, so it should work) to keep the hardware from failing.
On next week's Slashdot, there will be a brief tutorial on the right way to burn a Windows CD at the stake, and how to align the standing stones known as RAM Chips to points of astronomical significance.
Re:I sit just me? (Score:3, Funny)
Nope, not just you, I sit also.
Re:Show some respect! (Score:2, Funny)
"what's a matter, colonel? CHICKEN?"
sorry.
voting (Score:4, Funny)
So is this why we can't have voting (where correctness is paramount over performance) systems developed on Linux?
Re:LOL: Bug Report (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft Patent
Re:Those who fail to learn the lessons of history. (Score:3, Funny)
They tried to, but history was just a 0-byte file.