Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761777AbZC1AT1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:19:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753096AbZC1ATS (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:19:18 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:53324 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752702AbZC1ATR (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:19:17 -0400 Message-ID: <49CD6CE6.3020309@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:18:46 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Matthew Garrett , Alan Cox , Theodore Tso , Andrew Morton , David Rees , Jesper Krogh , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29 References: <20090327051338.GP6239@mit.edu> <20090327055750.GA18065@srcf.ucam.org> <20090327062114.GA18290@srcf.ucam.org> <20090327112438.GQ6239@mit.edu> <20090327145156.GB24819@srcf.ucam.org> <20090327150811.09b313f5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090327152221.GA25234@srcf.ucam.org> <20090327161553.31436545@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090327162841.GA26860@srcf.ucam.org> <20090327165150.7e69d9e1@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090327170208.GA27646@srcf.ucam.org> <49CD2C47.4040300@garzik.org> <49CD4DDF.3000001@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 860 Lines: 30 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> What is in Fedora 10 and Debian lenny's iceweasel both definitely sync to >> disk, as of today, according to my own tests. > > Hmm. Go to "about:config" and check your "toolkit.storage.synchronous" > setting. > > It _should_ say > > default integer 0 > > and that is what it says for me (yes, on Fedora 10). > > The values are: 0 = off, 1 = normal, 2 = full. Definitely a difference! 1 for both, here. Deb is a fresh OS install and fresh homedir, but my F10 has been through many OS and ff config upgrades over the years. Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/