From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Sandeen Subject: FYI: KDE reintroduces KDE_EXTRA_FSYNC Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:42:43 -0500 Message-ID: <49E15523.1080401@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ext4 development Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:51768 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752827AbZDLCmp (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:42:45 -0400 Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (int-mx2.corp.redhat.com [172.16.27.26]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n3C2gjaA010227 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:42:45 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n3C2gkgr010760 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:42:46 -0400 Received: from liberator.sandeen.net (sebastian-int.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.221]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n3C2giS7002865 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:42:44 -0400 Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Just FYI for the ext4 folks: http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/4.2/kdelibs/kdecore/io/ksavefile.cpp?r1=949036&r2=949054&pathrev=949054 --- re-introduce KDE_EXTRA_FSYNC for the poor XFS/Ext4/... users setting this env variable to anything (before kde starts!) will avoid getting those pesky 0-byte sized files after system crashes - at a potentially non-trivial performance cost. BUG: 187172 --- -Eric