Re: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck?

ismail dönmez
2004-07-13T10:39:18Z

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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