Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.cx> writes:

> I think that for compilation we don't need to synchronize everything
> to be sure the filesystem the compilation happens on has an
> inconsistent. It doesn't really matter if you lose some objects
> files. Maybe it would be a nice thing to provide this as an option.

The bugs that happen are *not* merely that you lose occasional object
files.  You can get arbitrary corruption.

In any case, we do not implement bugs deliberately.  We can decide to
have a totally asynchronous unsafe mode, which is no worse than just
ignoring this particular issue.

Thomas