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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by derefr on Friday September 23, 2016 @04:06PM (#12567558)
This isn't really the sync daemon's fault; it's Linux's (or rather, ext4's, and the Linux VFS ABI's) for not supporting multi-inode filesystem transactions. NTFS has them; APFS will have them. Linux should add them too.
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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by sitkack on Friday September 23, 2016 @05:08PM (#12567953)
The sync daemon could sync with hardlink and then rename which is atomic.
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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by Filligree on Friday September 23, 2016 @05:37PM (#12568160)
That would require rewriting the entire directory.
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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by sitkack on Friday September 23, 2016 @05:59PM (#12568279)
hardlinks for the stuff not changed. Browsers of course, should move to append only file formats.
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