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Idea
#14238: system tools showing us how far 'sync' is needed
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Written by nitrofurano the 9 Oct 08 at 11:27.
Category: System.
Related to:
Gnome.
Status: New
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Description
Most of people know the 'sync' issue is because performance.
The people used to not knowing 'sync' command (specially newbies) used to loose important files regularly. It's a fact, sadly.
Would be interesting some system tool, like a Gnome applet or something like, showing us how far clicking on the 'gksudo sync' custom Gnome Panel launcher is needed.
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dino wrote on the 9 Oct 08 at 11:44
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i *never* used sync and i *never* lost data. I dont know what the heck you're doing...
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nitrofurano wrote on the 9 Oct 08 at 11:47
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@dino: you're the very first person i listen this from 15 years now! You must be a kind of guru, or maybe you came from outer space, really...
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nitrofurano wrote on the 9 Oct 08 at 11:49
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@dino: or maybe all the files you have on your computer, specially personal work, are so nothing important, you don't mind at all loosing them at the point you have no idea if this happened to you or not...
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nitrofurano wrote on the 9 Oct 08 at 11:54
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@dino: maybe what you said deserved to you being interviewed by LinuxJournal in 8 pages, with your photo on the magazine cover, and everything else. Maybe you're the only Linux user among more than 10 million never used sync which never lost files. You deserve a guiness prize or something like...
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dino wrote on the 9 Oct 08 at 14:10
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I'm just a technically thinking person and asking when do you loose data? Most of the time i'm using my laptop - it might run out of power which may result in dataloss. That can be minimized with sync (especially with laptop mode / bigger write buffer activated). But how often do you let your laptop run out of power? If my battery is near empty i suspend to ram or shut the laptop down - suspend-to-disk gives you a lot of time to find a power supply. Shutting down syncs your harddisk and your data is save.
What a i missing?
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Aphoxema wrote on the 9 Oct 08 at 14:13
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Unnecessary idea -and- personal attacks on another user...
Definitely -1
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chipbennett wrote on the 9 Oct 08 at 14:37
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I have no idea what this idea is requesting...
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Ssdg wrote on the 9 Oct 08 at 15:48
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I only do that while I'm running on battery (out of power and late on projects) But it's a "I'm killing my machine kind of thing". so -1
Plus if you ask your PC to suspend to ram at critical level, it'll sync then go hibernate so you don't loose your session. So it's useless too. (except if you don't bother killing your hard disk sooner than expected like me because you run out of power and time. in that case, you'd better use the command line because it's a "I know what I'm doing" method that scares most kevins (the noob who think he knows everything and try to explain what is ubuntu to mr Shuttleworth ;) ))
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Graeme Harrison wrote on the 10 Oct 08 at 01:16
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I think syncing of mounted volumes should be done regularly. As I noted in post re keeping removable drives cache-flushed should be an issue of how-often... with no justification for 'never'. It is not just about battery power. People kick out power cords all the time, USB drives and cords get jiggled out all the time. My laptop (HP Pavilion) does sudden turn-offs due to sensing over-heating (no proper shutdown)... and trying to rebuild large corrupt drives is a real pain.
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