Theodore Ts'o wrote: > @Raine, > > Well, if the applications were written correctly, there wouldn't be any > data loss problems. I suppose we could thank the unreliable proprietary > binary drivers that were causing all of these crashes, so we could find > out about the buggy application code. :-)
Well, maybe if the kernel actually exposed the API that applications need (namely, in this case, atomically replacing the contents of a file without forcing it [or in case of ext3 the whole file system] to be written to disk), then application would have an easier time "doing things right". Anyone want to venture a guess as to how many laptop hard drives have died due to excessive wear caused by firefox calling fsync multiple times on basically any user action to ensure data integrity? -- Ext4 data loss https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317781 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
