Comment 134 for bug 317781

@Theo

Sorry, but you seem to avoid the actual point people are making. No one says that delayed allocation is bad in general or questions its benefit, but that reordering the operations on a file and then delaying the data-writing part, but not the renaming part, is prone to serious data loss if anything happens in between these operations. This has nothing to do with binary drivers, something like that could happen due to a lot of reasons. If you keep these operation in order, and delay them both if you want to, everything is fine, and the worst thing that could happen is that you lose a few minutes of updates. This is obviously much better than losing the entire file(s).