I can't believe it. So a bunch of corporate suckers emulate an earthquake to advance their technology? In the core of Silicon Valley? Where is Spiderman?
Right, except there is no other commonly available positioning system like the GPS. Just like the Internet. After a while, a specific term becomes a generic term.
Every government watches communications and Internet traffic. It's their job. But it doesn't constitute censorship if it just watches instead of filters or even modifies the content.
I am a Chinese. When I was young (~1988), at one time they banned a very popular TV series from Hongkong because, rumor had it, there were skeletons in it.
The funny thing was it wasn't even the first time it was aired on TV. It had been broadcasted nationwide many years ago already.
Anyway, there are always a lot of stupid people in the government. Not news anymore.
Yet the whole point of journaling filesystem is to protect against data loss.
Seriously, folks, the number one priority of a filesystem is to protect data, even at the event of unexpected crash. What's so hard to understand? CRASH IS NOT A RARE SCENARIO FOR FILESYSTEM DESIGNERS.
Does POSIX tell you what happens if your OS crashes? That's right, it says "undefined". Oops, sorry, it's too hard a problem and we'll just leave it to you OS implementers.
Asking everyone to use fsync() to ensure their data not being lost is insane. Nobody want to pay that kind of performance penalty unless the data is very critical.
Normal applications have a reasonable expectation that the OS doesn't crash, or doesn't crash too often for this to be a big problem. However, shit happens, and people scream loud if their data is lost BEYOND reasonable expectations.
Forget POSIX. It's irrelevent in the real world. It's exactly this pragmatic attitude that brought Linux to its current state.
So, POSIX never guarantees your data is safe unless you do fsync(). So, ext3 was not 100% safer either. So, it's the applications' fault that they truncate files before writing.
But it doesn't matter what POSIX says. It doesn't matter where the fault belongs to. To the users, a system either works nor not, as a whole.
EXT4 aims to replace EXT3 and becomes the next gen de-facto filesystem on Linux desktop. So it has to compete with EXT3 in all regards; not just performance, but data integrity and reliability as well. If in the common scenarios people lose data on EXT4 but not EXT3, the blame is on EXT4. Period.
It's the same thing that a kernel does. You have to COPE with crappy hardware and user applications, because that's your job.
1. monthly debate on the best Linux distro 2. monthly debate on binary kernel modules, proprietary software and GPL, plus ridiculing RML's mustache 3. quarterly email exchanges between Linus Torvalds and other users with the latter calling the former former arrogant bastard and the former calling the latter "a bunch of wanking monkeys" 4. weekly discussion on how Windows sucks and bookkeeping on the number of chairs thrown out of Redmond buildings 5. monthly whining about how slow Debian development is 6. bi-annually mention of Hurd and that it's going to be ready "soon"
Since almost everyone got a cell phone, it's essentially raising taxes on everyone, but it's worse, because the poor and the rich will pay the same amount.
In a court, sometimes the judge say "the defendant must answer this question".
What if you don't answer, or you answer "I don't know, I don't remember"?
You'll probably give bad impression to the jury, or maybe charged with defying the court if you really piss the judge off.
Same thing here I'd guess. It's not like anyone would point a gun to your head and force you to decrypt the data. It's just you can't use the 5th amendment as a legitimate reason to decline such request.
Yeah. It's like during the search, the suspect showed the police the evidence. Then the suspect suddenly changed his mind and quickly put it in a safe before the police could grab it. Now the police is asking the suspect to open the safe. The police already knows what's in the safe, and they could also use brute-force to open it, but it's reasonable to ask the suspect to surrender without violation of the 5th amendment.
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I can't believe it. So a bunch of corporate suckers emulate an earthquake to advance their technology? In the core of Silicon Valley? Where is Spiderman?
Right, except there is no other commonly available positioning system like the GPS. Just like the Internet. After a while, a specific term becomes a generic term.
So we'll have much faster BitTorrent downloads? Oh wait..
Every government watches communications and Internet traffic. It's their job. But it doesn't constitute censorship if it just watches instead of filters or even modifies the content.
Agreed. I DEMAND news about ethnic cleansing as usual!!!
by introducing the flying chair
It's already fast enough. Or, put another way, killing all the ads IS the best way to boost performance.
Give me Adblock and TabMix-level control of interface, and I'm ready to switch!
Dirk Fuchs, lead author on the study stated
How to pronounce his name? Anyone?
1. speculate or intentionally spread a rumor
2. publish a rebut
3. profit!
"Assemble the Social Web with Zombie!"
I am a Chinese. When I was young (~1988), at one time they banned a very popular TV series from Hongkong because, rumor had it, there were skeletons in it.
The funny thing was it wasn't even the first time it was aired on TV. It had been broadcasted nationwide many years ago already.
Anyway, there are always a lot of stupid people in the government. Not news anymore.
Yet the whole point of journaling filesystem is to protect against data loss.
Seriously, folks, the number one priority of a filesystem is to protect data, even at the event of unexpected crash. What's so hard to understand? CRASH IS NOT A RARE SCENARIO FOR FILESYSTEM DESIGNERS.
Apparently, you don't know real life.
Does POSIX tell you what happens if your OS crashes? That's right, it says "undefined". Oops, sorry, it's too hard a problem and we'll just leave it to you OS implementers.
Asking everyone to use fsync() to ensure their data not being lost is insane. Nobody want to pay that kind of performance penalty unless the data is very critical.
Normal applications have a reasonable expectation that the OS doesn't crash, or doesn't crash too often for this to be a big problem. However, shit happens, and people scream loud if their data is lost BEYOND reasonable expectations.
Forget POSIX. It's irrelevent in the real world. It's exactly this pragmatic attitude that brought Linux to its current state.
We use techniques that show great performance so people can see we beat ext3 and other filesystems.
Oh shit, as a tradeoff we lose more data in case of a crash. But it's not our fault.
Honestly, you cannot eat your cake and have it too.
OMG, you expect me to RTFA??!! In a BUGzilla?
So, POSIX never guarantees your data is safe unless you do fsync(). So, ext3 was not 100% safer either. So, it's the applications' fault that they truncate files before writing.
But it doesn't matter what POSIX says. It doesn't matter where the fault belongs to. To the users, a system either works nor not, as a whole.
EXT4 aims to replace EXT3 and becomes the next gen de-facto filesystem on Linux desktop. So it has to compete with EXT3 in all regards; not just performance, but data integrity and reliability as well. If in the common scenarios people lose data on EXT4 but not EXT3, the blame is on EXT4. Period.
It's the same thing that a kernel does. You have to COPE with crappy hardware and user applications, because that's your job.
And only on a specific distro. (haha Ubuntu users)
is such an important number that it's worth a news story by its own
Right, except that all the extra cost from the burden will still be passed on to customers.
Heck, why not revert it back to the old days when you could only position on a one-mile accuracy!
1. monthly debate on the best Linux distro
2. monthly debate on binary kernel modules, proprietary software and GPL, plus ridiculing RML's mustache
3. quarterly email exchanges between Linus Torvalds and other users with the latter calling the former former arrogant bastard and the former calling the latter "a bunch of wanking monkeys"
4. weekly discussion on how Windows sucks and bookkeeping on the number of chairs thrown out of Redmond buildings
5. monthly whining about how slow Debian development is
6. bi-annually mention of Hurd and that it's going to be ready "soon"
Since almost everyone got a cell phone, it's essentially raising taxes on everyone, but it's worse, because the poor and the rich will pay the same amount.
Well, think of it this way.
In a court, sometimes the judge say "the defendant must answer this question".
What if you don't answer, or you answer "I don't know, I don't remember"?
You'll probably give bad impression to the jury, or maybe charged with defying the court if you really piss the judge off.
Same thing here I'd guess. It's not like anyone would point a gun to your head and force you to decrypt the data. It's just you can't use the 5th amendment as a legitimate reason to decline such request.
Yeah. It's like during the search, the suspect showed the police the evidence. Then the suspect suddenly changed his mind and quickly put it in a safe before the police could grab it. Now the police is asking the suspect to open the safe. The police already knows what's in the safe, and they could also use brute-force to open it, but it's reasonable to ask the suspect to surrender without violation of the 5th amendment.
Just to keep Google honest