From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:53:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from s62.xrea.com (s62.xrea.com [221.186.251.67]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with SMTP id l2F4r06p011797 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:53:02 -0700 Message-ID: <45F8CAEA.3050408@list.rakugaki.org> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:26:18 +0900 From: Taisuke Yamada MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Questions about XFS References: <200703131440.56678.clflush@chello.be> <1173890016.20671.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1173890016.20671.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: xfs@oss.sgi.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - From end-user's POV, this infamous XFS behavior is somewhat taken as XFS's inferiority compared to other filesystems. Even with "bad" applications (ex. firefox), this rarely happens on others, so regardless of what's on the FAQ, people logically concludes that the fault belongs to XFS anyway. So, what is the correct way to do IO? Is what firefox (and other bad apps) doing is so obvious(ly buggy), that it'll be acknowledged as a bug once reported? Or is it simply a mismatch between application expectation and XFS behavior, requiring a non-(obvious|generic) fix? Although I'm not a filesystem developer, I'm pretty impressed with XFS and willing to file a report/patch to those "buggy" apps if the issue is explainable to other app developers. >> was to press the reset button on the computer. After the reboot, when I >> opened Firefox again, I noticed that all my bookmarks were gone. Those >> bookmarks were imported from my desktop machine a few days after I configured >> the new server. > > This is a firefox bug - I've seen it before (on my mother's machine). > > It's due to firefox not doing the correct thing with IO on the bookmarks > file. - -- Taisuke Yamada , http://rakugaki.org/ 2268 E9A2 D4F9 014E F11D 1DF7 DCA3 83BC 78E5 CD3A Message to my public address may not be handled in a timely manner. For a direct contact, please use my private address on my namecard. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF+Mrq3KODvHjlzToRAu/vAKC8pky15WJwocHbWhbRx9f2H+c5aQCeIeYp ZJPcSeawAIbZN80GXJz+kYg= =oAY3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----