Am Montag, den 16.03.2009, 11:49 +0100 schrieb Alexander Larsson: > On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 10:23 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 10:19 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > > But there are milllions of lines of code that does the rename as > > > atomic replace and the chances that anywhere near a majority of those > > > are "fixed" is extremely slim. Therefore everyone should be aware of > > > the broken filesystems that don't give data-before-metadata-on-rename > > > guarantees so that sane people can stay away from them. > > > > Out of interest, what distributions are shipping with ext4 configured > > in this helpful "loose your data" mode ? can we not simply inject the > > "go slower" patch into these ext4 distros [ since it won't affect their > > performance quite as badly as everywhere else ], as a temporary > > workaround; and then sit back and let the default glib behaviour be to > > work well on all sane systems ? :-) > > It seems both ubuntu and F11 will backport the ext4 fixes. However, even > with these fixed there is risk for data loss on e.g. xfs, and even ext3 > if you configure it in data=writeback mode. There was also reports from > nokia about it being unsafe on the flash file system they were using.
If "flash file system" is this one (they mention Nokia on the website - 2nd link): http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubifs.html#L_powercut http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubifs.html This might be either not noticed by the developers or not an issue with their file system. Regards, Sven _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list