Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757433AbZC1Nbe (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:31:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752741AbZC1NbZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:31:25 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:42015 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751558AbZC1NbZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:31:25 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <49CE2633.2000903@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:29:23 +0100 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090323 SeaMonkey/1.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Mark Lord , Linus Torvalds , 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> <49CD7B10.7010601@garzik.org> <49CD891A.7030103@rtr.ca> <49CD9047.4060500@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: <49CD9047.4060500@garzik.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 812 Lines: 22 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Mark Lord wrote: [store browser session] >> fsync() isn't going to affect that one way or another >> unless the entire kernel freezes and dies. > > ...which is one of the three common crash scenarios listed (and > experienced in the field). To get work done which one really cares about, one can always choose a system which does not crash frequently. Those who run unstable drivers for thrills surely do it on boxes on which nothing important is being done, one would think. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-= -==-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- 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/