[indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] [osol-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

[James Andrewartha]

Ginn Chen wrote:
> 
> On Nov 3, 2008, at 6:02 PM, James Andrewartha wrote:
> 
>> Ginn Chen wrote:
>>> I believe Firefox 3 doesn't have this bug since it's using its own
>>> sqlite3 library.
>>
>> Does it suffer from the fsync bug that the Linux versions have?
> 
> I guess not.
> 
> First, the problem is reported for ext3 file system.
> Second, the bug was closed before Firefox 3.0 final release.
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421482

The problem was still there in 3.0:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421482
and work is being done for 3.1 to improve things:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442967

The problem with ext3 was its journalling, and I suspect ZFS may behave
similarly (although I haven't tested it myself).

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James Andrewartha