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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: fsync() madness
From:       Arnold Krille <kde () arnoldarts ! de>
Date:       2008-04-21 20:03:50
Message-ID: 200804212203.58295.kde () arnoldarts ! de
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Am Montag, 21. April 2008 schrieb Esben Mose Hansen:
> I discussed this with a friend (who liked XFS because it could online grow
> >:) ) and it seems that the worst part of XFS behaviour in this regard was
> fixed in 2.6.22 --- the bit where any dirty file was zeroed just to be
> sure(!). So maybe we don't have to sync() quite so much now.  He has tested
> it a lot of times by installing a bios that crashed linux all the time, and
> it seems to work much better now :)

What is working better now? The crashing part or the 
not-loosing-too-much-data-on-crashes part?

Sorry, couldn't help myself...

Arnold
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