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		nolist_policy 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A deep dive into Debian 13 /tmp: What's new, and w... You'd think that, but in ext4 the first write to a new file will hit the disk (the code mentions it is a workaround for something). Btrfs does it correctly.

rwmj 7 months ago [–]

Sounds like fixing that ext4 problem could make a lot of things go faster.

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