Paul Wouters wrote:
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Adam Williamson wrote:
Haha :) No, it's just that, as far as I can see, the impact on newbies is that we tell them to reboot instead of doing ctrl-alt-backspace. Total cost: about twenty seconds (time to reboot vs. time to restart X).
Oh. it is a secret project to test data loss for ext4!
Killing X kills all X apps in any case, so they're not going to lose any data rebooting that they wouldn't have lost anyway by doing ctrl-alt-backspace.
UNEXPECTED FILE INCONSISTENTY, please run fsck manually
I've been doing my damnedest to not follow this thread, but ... neither ctrl-alt-backspace nor a reboot should result in a corrupted filesytsem or an unclean fs shutdown....
-Eric