@Theo: could you comment on the points made above (e.g., comment #98),
namely about why the truncate operation is immediate and the writing
operation is delayed? I think that's a very good point; if both
operations were delayed no (old) data would be lost, while achieving top
performance.

> Finally, I'll note that Fedora folks haven't really been complaining
about this, so far as I know. Which should make people ask the question,
"why is Ubuntu different"?

Well:
- Release cycle timing: alpha 1 for Ubuntu Jaunty was released last November, 
while the alpha for Fedora 11 was released in February. Fedora 11 will have 
ext4 by default, I'm pretty sure there _will_ be complaints if they don't 
address this problem, just give it time.
- Feature list: Fedora 11 is including experimental btrfs support. The truly 
adventurous will be trying that. The not-so-adventurous may as well wait for 
the beta to try fedora 11 out.
- Number of users: the more distribution users there are, the more comments and 
complaints you'll get for a given problem. I've no data to back this up, but in 
my perception Ubuntu does have more users than Fedora.

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