On 7/10/2013 10:58 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 05:36:21AM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: >> I was loosing my KDE settings bit by bit with every reboot during the >> bisection. First my window-rules disappeared, then my desktop background >> changed to default, then my taskbar moved from top to the bottom, etc. >> In the end I had to restore all my .files from backup. > > That's not filesystem corruption. That sounds more like someone not > using fsync in the apropriate place when overwriting a file.... >From Sandeen's blog, March 2009: "I dunno how to resolve this right now. I talked to some nice KDE folks on irc; they basically want atomic writes, either you get your old file or your new file post-crash; and tempfile/sync/rename does this – but the fsync hurts on 78% of the Linux filesystems out there. So their KSaveFile class doesn’t fsync. So what to do, what to do.." That's 4 years ago. Is it possible the KDE devs are still not using fsync? Sure seems likely given Markus' problem. -- Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
