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

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Date:	Mon, 2 Jun 2008 19:42:23 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
Cc:	hooanon05@...oo.co.jp, Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>,
	Phillip Lougher <phillip@...gher.demon.co.uk>,
	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	hch@....de
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/7] [RFC] cramfs: fake write support

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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