Comment 129 for bug 317781

@Brett,

Servers generally run on UPS's, and most server applications generally are set up to use fsync() where it is needed. So you should be able to use ext4 in good health. :-) I'm using a GNOME desktop myself, but I use a very minimalistic set of GNOME applications, and so I don't see a large number of dot files constantly getting rewritten. So it's probably not even fair to say that all GNOME/KDE desktops are affected; mine certainly has not been.