Re: vim file write mode on journaling fs.

[Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net>]

Russell Cattelan wrote:

> This isn't a matter of laziness or poor design it's a trade off.
> If you want the benefits of delayed allocation/write then there has to
> be a DELAY otherwise there would be much point,
> if you want better data integrity in the event of a crash
> then mount your filesystems O_SYNC and loose the performance.

There is no need for such a trade-off.  It is not difficult to detect that the
harddisk isn't very busy and start writing out dirty data blocks then.  This
doesn't cause a performance drop and greatly increases reliability.

It's certainly worth the effort to implement this.  The tests done by Seth
show that this is a real, existing problem.

Don't look at this from the point of view of a person that knows what "delayed
allocation/write" means, look at it from the point of view of a user.

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