I'm always surprised by what a mess doing what seem like simple file operations is. Maybe even more surprised that everything seems to generally work pretty well even with those issues. Even "I want to save this file" requires numerous sync operations on the file and the directory its in.
I'm certainly not qualified to criticize anyone for the current situation, and, as the article points out, even some of the more egregious sounding behavior (marking as clean pages after writing fails) has a pretty reasonable explanation. But, IIRC, as storage capacities continue to rise, error rates aren't falling nearly as fast. So, I'm left kinda wondering if there is some day in the future where the likely hood of encountering an error finally gets high enough that things don't work pretty well anymore.
I'm certainly not qualified to criticize anyone for the current situation, and, as the article points out, even some of the more egregious sounding behavior (marking as clean pages after writing fails) has a pretty reasonable explanation. But, IIRC, as storage capacities continue to rise, error rates aren't falling nearly as fast. So, I'm left kinda wondering if there is some day in the future where the likely hood of encountering an error finally gets high enough that things don't work pretty well anymore.