Comment 171 for bug 317781
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| Pelládi Gábor (pelladigabor) wrote | #171 |
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KDE has a framework for reading and writing application settings. So the solution should be simple: switch on the fsync call at the same Ubuntu release where ext4 is the default file system. Does anybody know what is the situation of the GNOME environment? Does a similar switch exist?
Of course other core apps must be fixed, too. Firefox and OpenOffice are using fsync, as far as I know, so no problem. Fixing dpkg will be a must, it rewrites files in huge amounts and is essential to work correctly.
I think moving to ext4 for Karmic would be a good idea. Ubuntu 10.04 will be an LTS, so a bad target to switch to a new file system. If Karmic would be ext4 by default, it would contain at least the .30 kernel, which has patches to improve the situation, and the core applications could be patched.