Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Jun 09 2006 - 19:06:23 EST
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
> Umm, and how is this fundamentally different from similar code paths in
> the VFS (e.g. O_DIRECT vs regular writes)?
That's a great argument.
You're arguing that your thing is good by pointing to a known disaster
area and saying "but that other thing does it too, so it must be good".
O_DIRECT is a piece of crap, and I'm still sorry that I didn't push back
enough on it. And I _did_ push back on it. But I finally was worn down.
And yes, part of the problem is exactly that it uses _almost_ the same
paths, but not quite.
Oh, well.
Linus
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