nodata wrote: > Am Montag, den 15.12.2008, 16:58 +0100 schrieb Harald Hoyer: >> Eric Sandeen wrote: >>>> Turning off bootchart: 30s >>>> >>>> So all in all we have nearly accomplished the 30 Second Startup Feature >>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/30SecondStartup. >>> Well, no; not if this requires data=writeback. We can't ship that way, >>> it's a potential security hole. You don't want someone's maildir >>> suddenly containing pieces of /etc/shadow or whatnot. The old data that >>> may be exposed by data=writeback may not belong to that user. >>> >>> -Eric >>> >> So, we switch to xfs as the default FS? :-) > > > XFS has a nasty bug where it will leave files full of zeros on disk in a > crash. No, it doesn't. Not any more (and technically not ever; what happened was a truncate & extension of the file (like vi might do) led to a size on disk but no extents so you got a sparse file. If the apps looked after their data as they should, this wouldn't happen either, but that's just an aside). But anyway, http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git&a=commitdiff&h=ba87ea699ebd9dd577bf055ebc4a98200e337542 > I think it was Alan Cox that said this could be fixed quite easily by > changing the write ordering for XFS, but that someone who was willing to > maintain the patch would need to do it. > > If this was merged I would love to move to XFS :) Go for it. -Eric -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
