Re: gnome `recovery' after accidental shutdown
Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> writes:
> > > (2) Is Gnome's error recovery really this bad, or is something wrong
> > > with my setup?
> >
> > Even a journalling filesystem can't guarantee perfect recovery of
> > accidents.
>
> Of course not, but ext3 (and ext2 for that matter) tries _very_ hard,
> and suceeds about 99% of the time. From my admittedly naive reading of
> what happened to me, gconf didn't seem to do even the most basic
> attempts at recovering from the situation, or even give any useful
> advice to allow the user to do so (it didn't even give _cryptic_ advice,
> which would have been better than nothing).
Hm, perhaps you should try to contact Havoc Pennington (or, IIRC,
there is a gconf-list on gnome.org).
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Ole Laursen
http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/
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