FreeLists / haiku-development / [haiku-development] Re: Haiku page_writer maybe not working (was: Re: Haiku self-hosting.)

["Urias McCullough" <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/04/2008, Luposian <luposian@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Urias McCullough wrote:
> > To be fair to you - I will personally try your scenario tonight on my
> > Haiku test machine. I might even go so far as to file a Trac ticket on
> > your behalf if I see the same behavior and you don't get around to it
> > first.
>
>  Thank you.

Ok, so I kept my test simple for the sake of providing an easy test case.

Boot into fresh Haiku install (on real hardware) - open screen prefs,
change screen resolution, apply, etc, close screen prefs.

Wait (several minutes in fact) generated KDL, reboot.

It very clearly didn't save my screen prefs :/

Same test again, run sync on a terminal first, everything is fine. (as
expected - sync is essentially the standard command for manually
flushing the cache to disk - exists on Linux and many other OSes just
for such a sanity purpose - it is *not* just a hack for Haiku as you
probably are thinking).

So, while I still believe this is blatant abuse of an incomplete
operating system (that has not yet been designed to die like this in a
recoverable fashion) - I admit that I can confirm the behavior here.

Now, what Stephan says makes a load of sense - except I don't seem to
see the "write 32kb every 3 seconds" behavior here...

I guess I've been messing with Haiku for so long, that I just
habitually run sync from a terminal after every important disk-related
change that I do any more. Either that or do a graceful shutdown.

All your other rants are just distraction from the real issue which is
that you just aren't willing to admit to yourself that Haiku is an
unfinished OS missing functionality that is required for it to be
usable.

Now, if you really want to see something done about this - you could
start by filing a Trac ticket like a responsible software tester. It's
too late for me to do that for you tonight.

Now for the sake of everyone's sanity - can you keep your
long-winded-rants to a minimum before you start driving people away
from this list? Nothing good can come of that.

- Urias