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    SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.29
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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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