Re: syncing the disks when entering sleep

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > > Per-system property, which should better be
> > > per-program-that-requires-suspend. You request suspend without syncing
> > > (you want it quick, battery is 90%), then the battery runs low, and
> > > system daeomn requests s2ram, not realizing that someone disabled sync
> > > from under him.
> > 
> > I really prefer a per-system setting.  The program that wants to sync anyway
> > can easily do that by itself.
> 
> Yes, but existing apps do not know they have to sync. You are
> essentially adding "break back compatibility" system wide option, when
> better alternative exists... See above for concrete example where it
> may hurt.

I don't get what the problem is, really.

There's _nothing_ here that breaks the existing behavior.  If the user doesn't
set the switch, everything works as usual.  If he does, breaking the "back
compatibility" is _his_ problem.

Rafael