Re: Linux 2.6.29

Jeff Garzik
2009-03-28T01:19:54Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Of course, your browsing history database is an excellent example of
> something you should _not_ care about that much, and where performance is
> a lot more important than "ooh, if the machine goes down suddenly, I need
> to be 100% up-to-date". Using fsync on that thing was just stupid, even

If you are doing a ton of web-based work with a bunch of tabs or windows
open, you really like the post-crash restoration methods that Firefox
now employs. Some users actually do want to checkpoint/restore their
web work, regardless of whether it was the browser, the window system or
the OS that crashed.

You may not care about that, but others do care about the integrity of
the database that stores the active FF state (Web URLs currently open),
a database which necessarily changes for each URL visited.

As an aside, I find it highly ironic that Firefox gained useful session
management around the same time that some GNOME jarhead no-op'd GNOME
session management[1] in X.

Jeff

[1] http://np237.livejournal.com/22014.html