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Fsyncers and curveballs (the Firefox 3 fsync() problem)

Fsyncers and curveballs (the Firefox 3 fsync() problem)

Posted May 27, 2008 2:36 UTC (Tue) by russell (subscriber, #10458)
Parent article: Fsyncers and curveballs (the Firefox 3 fsync() problem)

If in the unlikey event that your machine crashes, while do some mission critial web browsing,
while creating a new bookmark to an important site that you'll never remember in 5 minutes
time.

Does your world really end?


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Fsyncers and curveballs (the Firefox 3 fsync() problem)

Posted May 27, 2008 7:33 UTC (Tue) by IkeTo (subscriber, #2122) [Link]

That depends on what situation you'd call the world has ended.  Say, you end up with an empty
bookmark, or you cannot start firefox again unless you wipe up your .mozilla/firefox
directory?

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