From: Roy Butler <roy.butler@jpl.nasa.gov>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kconfig's file handling (was: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck?)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:27:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40F4D266.4050006@jpl.nasa.gov> (raw)
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:31:43PM +0200, Waldo Bastian wrote:
>
> The sentiment among filesystem developers seem to be that they don't
care if
> they trash files as long as the filesystem itself remains in a consistent
> state. This kind of dataloss is the result of that attitude, either go
> complain with them if it bothers you, or use a filesystem that does
it right.
>
Exactly. Don't blame KDE. Using XFS is equivalent to using
non-battery-backed NVRAM on an external disk array. Great if
performance is _the_ metric and lost results can easily be regenerated
(like in frame rendering). By example, if you create a file, write to
it, and then delete it fast enough, it will never hit the disk under XFS.
Roy Butler
next reply other threads:[~2004-07-14 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-14 6:27 Roy Butler [this message]
2004-07-14 6:44 ` kconfig's file handling (was: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck?) Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-14 16:57 ` kconfig's file handling Roy Butler
[not found] <20040713110520.GB8930@ugly.local>
2004-07-13 12:31 ` kconfig's file handling (was: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck?) Waldo Bastian
2004-07-13 12:40 ` Tim Connors
2004-07-13 12:53 ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2004-07-13 21:02 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-07-13 22:28 ` Chris Wedgwood
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