Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.29 | From | Thierry Vignaud <> | Date | Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:01:59 +0200 |
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Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> writes:
> > Of course, your browsing history database is an excellent example of > > something you should _not_ care about that much, and where > > performance is a lot more important than "ooh, if the machine goes > > down suddenly, I need to be 100% up-to-date". Using fsync on that > > thing was just stupid, even > > If you are doing a ton of web-based work with a bunch of tabs or > windows open, you really like the post-crash restoration methods that > Firefox now employs. Some users actually do want to > checkpoint/restore their web work, regardless of whether it was the > browser, the window system or the OS that crashed.
This is all about tradeoff. I guess everybody can afford loosing the last 30 seconds of history (or 5mn ...). That's not that much of lost work...
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