On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 01:44:54PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Aug 29, 2013, at 1:40 PM, Hugo Mills wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 01:37:51PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> > >> "Proceeding will roll back the file system to a previous state, and may cause the loss of successfully written data. Proceed? (Y/N)" > > > > "... the loss of up to the last 30 seconds of successfully written data." > > > > Give the user enough information to make a sensible decision. > > Certainly, if known for sure it won't be more than 30 seconds? Mmm... it'll depend on the setting of the commit period, which up until a couple of weeks ago was always 30s, but someone posted a patch to give it a config knob... Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 65E74AC0 from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- emacs: Eighty Megabytes And Constantly Swapping. ---