[haiku-development] Re: BFS and write back problems
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:42:20 +0200
Alexander G. M. Smith 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.
Actually, I think something like that is absolutely justified. It's the
users email after all. I would go as far as add such behaviour to text
editors in general. ;-)
Best regards,
-Stephan
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