On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 21:18, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 10:35, Mark M. Barrios wrote:
>
> > today I had a real powerfailure and after the box was back up again I lost
> > all of the settings in GNOME, everything went back to its default
> > settings, I cant say if the config files were corupted or had 0 sizes.
> >
> > is this because these applications are not compatible with XFS? or
> > because of my hardware? or is this a needed feature/bug fix not yet in XFS
> > code?
>
> Well, it should not be a compatibility issue... gnome seems to be
> particularly susceptible to this, it seems that our sync behavior may
> not be quite right.
>
> On the other hand, with a metadata journaling filesystem, there is no
> guarantee against data loss when the system crashes or is switched off.
> We do need to be sure that we deal with it as gracefully as possible
> though, and I'll see if I can get a reproducible case going.
FWIW, my laptop loses all my gnome settings when I do a
Desktop->Logout->Shutdown via the menu panel every time.
This behaviour only started when I did a reinstall (to put an MS OS on
it too) and then lazilly set it up to have 2 XFS partitions (/boot + a
massive /) whereas previously it had my usual 8ish XFS partitions.
So my theory is that:
1) it's something to do with "it being a laptop" (slow disk/odd
controller)
2) gnome keeps files open for writing which are unnecessary
3) having a (stupidly) big partition (takes longer to sync?)
Any theories gratefully received. Any testing you want done...
nic
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