FreeLists / haiku-development / [haiku-development] Re: BFS and write back problems

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > dolgov wrote on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:19:19 +0300:
> > > I thought about adding flush() in several places in code related
> > > to
> > > file transactions with ifdef BeOS [...]
> > We did that in the mail daemon replacement, after it had finished
> > receiving a new batch of e-mail.  Makes things a bit more reliable
> > in
> > BeOS R5, particularly if a mail fetch happened while debugging
> > other
> > crashy code.  Though it does annoyingly spin up all sleeping hard
> > drives with mounted file systems.
> On a related note, MDR happily continues checking mails even when it
> can't write one because the volume is full...
> It should probably keep the current mail in memory and display an
> alert
> inviting to make room, that would avoid loosing 10 emails in a row
> like
> it did to me the other day :)

Sounds reasonable... feel free to fix it :-)

Bye,
   Axel.