From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264795AbUGMKjS (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 06:39:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264815AbUGMKjS (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 06:39:18 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.198]:46100 "HELO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264795AbUGMKjQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 06:39:16 -0400 Message-ID: <2a4f155d04071303384f156004@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:38:40 +0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?ismail_d=F6nmez?= To: Tim Connors Subject: Re: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck? Cc: Chris Wedgwood , Anton Ertl , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Knutar , L A Walsh In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20040713080950.GA1810@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20040713095300.GA2986@taniwha.stupidest.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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. > > -- > TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ > The prolonged application of polysyllabic vocabulary infallibly > exercises a deleterious influence on the fecundity of expression, > rendering the ultimate tendancy apocryphal. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- Time is what you make of it