The point of the blog was not that "it's OK to rep...

2009-03-17T13:36:00.000Z

The point of the blog was not that "it's OK to replace all the recently modified files with zero length files after as system crash."

There are already patches in -next that fix the Ubuntu bugs.

The point of the blog was that fsync() is a useful system call, especially now that every modern filesystem is moving away from syncing every 5 seconds. On ext4 the default is to sync data after 30 seconds (not 60 minutes obviously).

ZFS also waits longer to sync data.

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The point of the blog was not that "it's OK to rep...