Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/7] [RFC] cramfs: fake write support | Date | Mon, 2 Jun 2008 19:42:23 +0200 |
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On Monday 02 June 2008, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > I personally think that a policy other than writing to the top is crazy > > enough, but randomly writing to multiple places is much worse, as it > > becomes unpredictable what the file system does, not just unexpected. > > Is this a double rot13 encoded "people will never use computers with > more than 640 kb of ram" phrase? :)
No, it's more the "people don't need variable block size drives" argument. They've been working fine for decades on mainframes, are incredibly complicated to build and entirely pointless in practice ;-)
Arnd <><
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