[haiku-development] Re: writeback (was: Re: Re: Haiku self-hosting.)

  • From: "Rene Gollent" <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:48:23 -0500

>  Yeah well yanking out power cables while the computer is powered on
>  and doing heavily file management is *never* a good idea - no matter
>  the operating system being used. You're asking the devs to fix
>  something that is essentially unfixable: power failures causing file
>  corruption.
>

They shouldn't actually cause corruption normally, at worst case the
FS journal should roll back/commit so that the FS itself is in a
consistent state, though all your files might not necessarily be there
and/or up to date.

Regards,

Rene

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