On 7/11/2013 6:28 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: ... >> Looking at the source: >> http://api.kde.org/4.10-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/ksavefile_8cpp_source.html#l00219 >> it appears that one can set an environment variable KDE_EXTRA_FSYNC to >> address this issue. >> >> However in my case it doesn't help. Even with KDE_EXTRA_FSYNC=1 I still >> loose my KDE settings in case of a crash. So the whole fsync thing might >> be a red herring. > > It turned out that the KDE_EXTRA_FSYNC variable doesn't affect KDE > config file handling at all. > So I've added an fsync in kconfigini.cpp (KConfigIniBackend::writeConfig) > and now I don't loose my settings anymore during kernel crash testing. > > That is until xfs eats my KDE config files (kwinrulesr in this case): Adding fsync in kconfigini.cpp apparently doesn't force fsync for all KDE file operations. You also have some Open Office files getting hosed due to lack of fsync. XFS is not the cause of these problems. The problem is that all of this desktop code was developed atop EXT3 which flushed to disk every 5 seconds. This made programmers sloppy as they didn't have to fsync to make sure data hit disk. This problem has been covered extensively by many, including Eric in other posts on his blog. There's a really simple way to test this: mount with sync. Report results after the next crash. If no files are corrupted then you've verified the problem lay squarely on the shoulders of these desktop developers who have abdicated their responsibility to make sure their file changes hit the disk, instead of relying on a broken filesystem do it for them. Worth noting, using EXT4 without the EXT3 flush emulation enabled will yield similar file corruption upon a crash. -- Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
