[Bug 37435] dpkg only to work properly on ext3 with data=ordered?

[Stewart Smith]

Scott, you are wrong. Out of order processing of file operations is a massive performance boost for the general case. It lets the operating system work out an optimal order to write things to disk to avoid seeks (and batch things up).

How can anybody advocate that dpkg should only work correctly on "linux ext3 with data=ordered" ? (ext3 also has data=writeback - should this option be removed because it's "buggy"?)

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XFS leaves garbage in file if app does write-new-then-rename without f(data)sync
https://launchpad.net/bugs/37435