Comment Top down reliability? (Score 0) 830
So is this a new trend to design systems? Make them reliable from top to bottom? Designing an upper-layer part of the system to work around the flaws of a lower layer system component is often necessary but is not the right thing to do it.
Telling application developers to change their applications because a new version of the file system breaks their stuff is madness. No matter what POSIX standards say: it worked before, it is broken now: go fix it.