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From: "ismail dönmez" <ismail.donmez@gmail.com>
To: Tim Connors <tconnors@astro.swin.edu.au>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
	Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Knutar <jk-lkml@sci.fi>,
	L A Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org>
Subject: Re: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck?
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:38:40 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a4f155d04071303384f156004@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrn-0.9.7.4-25266-13316-200407132020-tc@hexane.ssi.swin.edu.au>

Trying to start a flame war with bitching about KDE? How about trying
to solve at least work around it? No? Then please shut the fuck up.

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:27:30 +1000, Tim Connors
<tconnors@astro.swin.edu.au> wrote:
> KDE is a peice of shit with regards to file handling.
> 
> It seems they never learnt the lessons of writing files in Unix that
> have been learnt over the last 30 years.
> 
> How the hell can you afford to hose your entire WM because KDE decides
> to write some obscure file at some time when the NFS servers just
> happen to be temporarily down? What ever happened to the standard
> practice of write to temp file, then atomic rename? What ever happened
> to making backups of critical files before overwriting them? Furrfu.
> 
> Makes me glad I use a much more sane WM, but I pity those 3 users in
> the space of a few minutes who lost all of their settings.
> 
> BTW, I have submitted the occasional bug to Debian because packages
> will cause dataloss to an /etc file if the disk happens to run out at
> the wrong moment (quite a common occurence for me). Furrfu people -
> this is so bloody simple to get right.
> 
> --
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Time is what you make of it

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-13 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-05  5:47 XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck? Norberto Bensa
2004-07-09 16:37 ` L A Walsh
2004-07-09 21:59   ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-10 18:33     ` L A Walsh
2004-07-10 18:43       ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-10 21:24         ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-07-11 21:54           ` Helge Hafting
2004-07-12 17:56             ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-07-12 19:59               ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-12 20:32                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-07-12 22:29                 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-07-12 23:03       ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-07-12 23:14         ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-10 18:43     ` Jan Knutar
2004-07-10 18:46       ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-10 18:55         ` Norberto Bensa
2004-07-10 19:19           ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-12 21:20             ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-12 22:40               ` L A Walsh
2004-07-12 22:53                 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-13  1:44                   ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-07-13  5:24                     ` Chris Wedgwood
     [not found]             ` <2hgxc-5x9-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-07-13  7:25               ` Anton Ertl
2004-07-13  8:09                 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-13  9:34                   ` Anton Ertl
2004-07-13  9:53                     ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-13 10:27                       ` Tim Connors
2004-07-13 10:38                         ` ismail dönmez [this message]
2004-07-13 11:16                           ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-13 12:52                             ` ismail dönmez
2004-07-13 10:58                         ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-13 13:33                       ` Anton Ertl
2004-07-13 20:32                         ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-13 22:42                           ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-07-14 18:49                           ` Anton Ertl
2004-07-14 19:00                             ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-13 22:24                 ` Helge Hafting
2004-07-13 22:39                   ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-13 23:23                   ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-07-14 18:53                   ` Anton Ertl
2004-07-10 19:33           ` Andreas Schwab
2004-07-10 19:40             ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-10 19:46             ` Norberto Bensa
2004-07-10 20:03               ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-11  1:21           ` Gopikrishnan Sidhardhan
2004-07-29  1:30   ` Nathan Scott
2004-08-03 18:31     ` L A Walsh
2004-08-04  0:48       ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-04  6:37         ` L A Walsh
2004-08-05  8:16       ` Helge Hafting
2004-08-06  1:10         ` Nathan Scott
2004-08-06  1:34           ` Andrew Morton

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