
11 Apr
2012
11 Apr
'12
3:22 a.m.
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Trent W. Buck wrote:
I don't understand the protestations against fsync though! Anything else is totally unfair. If you say "Your data is saved/copied/whatever!" when it isn't on disk, they *the operating system is lying to the user*. Why would that be OK??
We have registered post and normal post, and registered post has guaranteed delivery. Obviously we should make ALL post registered, because otherwise you never really know if the letter arrived at all!
Let's ban UDP! ;P -- Tim Connors