[haiku-development] Re: BFS and write back problems
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:57:02 +0200 CEST
dolgov <dolgov@xxxxx> wrote:
> Actually I had intention to submit separate bug for BeZilla/Mozilla,
> related to pending writes.
> But it was about BeOS, not Haiku.
>
> Problem is that I never lost my Mozilla profile data (passwords,
> bookmarks, cookies etc) so frequently with any other OS besides BeOS.
>
> As result of bad crash/hangout of BeZilla (and thus, sometimes, OS
> itself). In other OS-es losses are restricted with last changes in
> data
> mostly, but when it crashes in/with BeOS, quite frequently all data
> is gone.
>
> I read Axel's article at Haiku-OS/Haiku-News about bfs some month(s)
> ago
> and i think I got the reason, but do not see clean solution for that
> yet.
This probably happens for you that often, because other OS' don't crash
that often with Firefox in use.
Also BeOS has a very poor cache/transaction flush management: if the
cache is constantly in use (ie. when you're playing some songs in the
background), BeOS will never flush the cache, unless a transaction is
actually finished (and not just joined with the previous one).
Therefore I pretty often "sync" in BeOS manually (as Dano is not that
stable).
Bye,
Axel.
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