Re: kconfig's file handling (was: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck?)

[Roy Butler]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:31:43PM +0200, Waldo Bastian wrote:
>
> The sentiment among filesystem developers seem to be that they don't 
care if
> they trash files as long as the filesystem itself remains in a consistent
> state. This kind of dataloss is the result of that attitude, either go
> complain with them if it bothers you, or use a filesystem that does 
it right.
>

Exactly.  Don't blame KDE.  Using XFS is equivalent to using 
non-battery-backed NVRAM on an external disk array.  Great if 
performance is _the_ metric and lost results can easily be regenerated 
(like in frame rendering).  By example, if you create a file, write to 
it, and then delete it fast enough, it will never hit the disk under XFS.


Roy Butler
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