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libreoffice package

  1. Bug #817326
  2. Comment #46

Comment 46 for bug 817326

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In , Michael Meeks (michael-meeks) wrote :

Hi Robert, sorry to hear about your data loss:

> I've been using OpenOffice 2.4 for several years with the same NAT, the same
> NFS-setup, the same OS and the same odt-files - and I have never had dataloss.

It is worth pointing out that this (missing fsync) is -exactly- the same in the OpenOffice code, so ... while it's absence might well be the cause of your grief, it's not different to what you had before.

GregKH managed to 3/4 persuade me that we should just call fsync() wherever and risk the wrath, frustration etc. of people blaming the kernel /file-system bugs for ext2, ext3 etc. and to some extent ext4/btrfs on us.

I'm inclined to do that I guess - and skip the fstab parsing etc.