On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Hendrik Sattler
<p...@hendrik-sattler.de> wrote:
> Zitat von "Olaf van der Spek" <olafvds...@gmail.com>:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Hendrik Sattler
>> <p...@hendrik-sattler.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> BTW: KDE4 is a very good example for failure with modern filesystems. I
>>> regularly loose configuration files when suspend-to-ram fails even if the
>>> configuration of the running programs were not changed. Yay :-( And this
>>> is
>>> with XFS, not Ext4! Filed a bug a looooooong time ago in KDE BTS.
>>> Reaction:
>>> none!
>>
>> Maybe complain to the Linux kernel people instead.
>
> "suspend-to-ram fails" is the same situation as a sudden power loss. In this
> case, it's not a kernel bug. I don't know how KDE4 handles its configuration
> files but something is wrong there when I loose config data without changing
> any settings in this scenario...

I know. It's about a(nother) use case for O_ATOMIC, but the kernel
guys prefer workarounds.
-- 
Olaf


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