Ext4 data loss

[Callum Lerwick]

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 22:41 -0400, Michel Salim wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> >> Are Ted's patches, that are queued up for 2.6.30, going to be applied to
> >> F-11 (and F-10) 2.6.29 kernels or not? Asking just out of curiosity.
> >
> > I sure hope they will. This is pretty much a blocker for the KDE spin.
> >
> Is there any design document about how KDE persists configuration
> files? I have noticed application crashes affecting recently-applied
> KDE settings in the past, even on ext3, while GConf settings seem to
> be persisted to disk almost immediately.

Is KDE Doing It Wrong?

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/317781/comments/54

rename() is what I mean by atomic filesystem operations.
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