Re: Linux 2.6.29

Thierry Vignaud
2009-03-31T15:31:29Z

Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> writes:

> > 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.

This is all about tradeoff.
I guess everybody can afford loosing the last 30 seconds of history (or
5mn ...).
That's not that much of lost work...