Re: [Evolution] Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evo crashed and my email configuration was lost

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 14:12, Not Zed wrote:
> We also try to make most configuration type writes write to a separate
> file first, then rename over the old one after its been closed, and
> sync'd, which should make such losses a lot rarer.  Hopefully ...

Right, but even 0.15 did this... the problem was that we relied on
xmlSaveFile giving us an acurate error code, which it didn't ;-)

Jeff

> On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 02:46, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > Well, bonobo-conf 0.15 and earlier were also not very good about making
> > sure data was successfully written either, so the problem may just be
> > bonobo-conf (0.16 fixes this by rewriting libxml's xmlSaveFile to do
> > proper error checking).
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 05:48, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > > Le jeu 12/09/2002 à 14:37, Not Zed a écrit :
> > > > this belongs on the evolution users list.
> > > >
> > > > depends on what sort of crash u had, but sure it sounds non ideal.
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 10:33, Francisco Javier Fernandez wrote:
> > > > > I 'm runing evo 1.0.8 and due to a crash when i was configuring a emai
> > > > > account I lost all my configuration and had to re-enter it. ¿Does not it
> > > > > seems a bad behaviour?
> > >
> > > It happened to me and the culprit is reiserfs. This filesystem has a
> > > tendency to mess open files at crash time, it seems. I have an unstable
> > > motherboard on one of my pcs (will repair it soon) and lost my Evo
> > > config quite often (freeze computer with Evo running, reboot, loose
> > > config at reiserfs's journal-replay).
> > >
> > >
> > >
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