[Openmcl-devel] ccl on ext4

[Bit Twiddler]

That's kind of what I thought. In a thousand years from
now, when we have our first encounter with an alien
civilzation, they are going to have 2 Big Questions
for us:

1. How come you are using a non-orthogonal instruction set?

2. How come you are still using ext3?


On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:20 PM, R. Matthew Emerson <rme at clozure.com> wrote:

>
> On Jul 11, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Bit Twiddler wrote:
>
> > I know that this has probably been discussed before,
> > but does anybody know whether ccl has been certified
> > by its maintainers to work properly on the ext4 file system?
>
> I would say that CCL is certified to take up space on your disk.
> Anything more than that...well, not so much.
>
> I think CCL is reasonably good about calling fsync before streams
> wrapped around file descriptors are closed, but as far as
> I know, nobody has tried to comb through the file i/o code
> with the specific thought "is this going to be robust in
> the face of power loss and delayed block allocation" in mind.
>
>
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