Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:17:42 -0400 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.29 |
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Stefan Richter wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Mark Lord wrote: > [store browser session] >>> fsync() isn't going to affect that one way or another >>> unless the entire kernel freezes and dies. >> ...which is one of the three common crash scenarios listed (and >> experienced in the field). > > To get work done which one really cares about, one can always choose a > system which does not crash frequently. Those who run unstable drivers > for thrills surely do it on boxes on which nothing important is being > done, one would think.
Once software is perfect, there is definitely a lot of useless crash protection code to remove.
Jeff
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