Re: [RFC 0/7] [RFC] cramfs: fake write support

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Jun 02 2008 - 13:47:15 EST


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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