Manuel BOUYER writes:
> On Jun 11, Perry E. Metzger wrote
> > Manuel, one question:
> > 
> > Linux's ext2fs has a serious flaw in it -- it does not do synchronous
> > metadata writes, ever. You derived our ext2fs from ffs -- does that
> > mean that we properly do synchronous metadata writes,
> 
> Yes. If it appears that in some conditions metadata are not written
> synchronously, this is a bug.
> However, the "-o async" option is available.
> 
> > and can claim to
> > do ext2fs better than Linux does?
> 
> We do ext2fs slower, but safer ... This now depend on what you call
> "better" :)

I find this endlessly amusing.

Perry