Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:57:34 +0100 | From | John Hughes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add "-e" option to rpc.gssd to allow error on ticket expiry. Try 2 with added man pages. |
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On 11/18/2011 11:38 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote: > The fact of the matter is that most application writers remain blithely > oblivious of the need to fsync() as the ext4 people know all to well: > see the attempts to impose the fully posix-compatible 'data=writeback' > mode as the default and the catastrophe that occurred when > 'data=ordered' semantics changed for the rename() syscall. Adding new > failure modes needs to be done with care, or GNOME will crash and/or > your word processor _will_ lose your last hour or so of work. > 1. It's not a new failure mode. it's how things worked before 2.6.34 2. My ticket usualy expires in the middle of the night. I get back in the morning and have to reboot the workstation because it's hung. Anything left in the wordprocessor is lost.
Before this change I got back in the morning, the unlock screen popped up, I entered my password and got a new ticket, everyone was happy.
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