Comment by kortilla
4 years ago
Nope, the problem here is that it violates a very basic ordering guarantee that all kinds of applications build on top of. Consider all of the cases of these hybrid drives or just multiple hard drives where you fsync on one to journal that you do something on the other (e.g. steam storing actual games on another drive).
This behavior will cause all kinds of weird data inconsistencies in super subtle ways.
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