Comment 119 for bug 317781

@Theo: could you comment on the points made above (e.g., comment #98), namely about why the truncate operation is immediate and the writing operation is delayed? I think that's a very good point; if both operations were delayed no (old) data would be lost, while achieving top performance.

> Finally, I'll note that Fedora folks haven't really been complaining about this, so far as I know. Which should make people ask the question, "why is Ubuntu different"?

Well:
- Release cycle timing: alpha 1 for Ubuntu Jaunty was released last November, while the alpha for Fedora 11 was released in February. Fedora 11 will have ext4 by default, I'm pretty sure there _will_ be complaints if they don't address this problem, just give it time.
- Feature list: Fedora 11 is including experimental btrfs support. The truly adventurous will be trying that. The not-so-adventurous may as well wait for the beta to try fedora 11 out.
- Number of users: the more distribution users there are, the more comments and complaints you'll get for a given problem. I've no data to back this up, but in my perception Ubuntu does have more users than Fedora.