[Qt-creator] QtCreator quick save mode?

[Ursache Vladimir]

I know about power outages I get them rather
often, and no, pre-existing files won't be gone (never experienced this in
15 years of development and I'm using QtCreator for like 6 months), you
have to be extremely unlucky and have to have very important stuff for it
to be worth trashing your HDD all the time, and if I was that person I'd have
a UPS to begin with. And even if I lost data btrfs would probably help
with that, I don't know
and I don't care just like I don't care getting a virus thru the air
despite it being
totally possible.

As I said earlier, it's about the trade-off people choose, for me it's
the "unsafe"
path.

A few times I did lose a lot of data and whole partitions but that had
nothing to do with power
outages, and I didn't have a system crash with a stable Linux distro
.. ever..? I don't recall,
probably never, and I certainly never lost any source code because of that.

In a way it's like the story about setting up the printer being
password protected "for security" in the past
until a well known authority came out (Linus) and blamed those people for this
security theater, only then people agreed it's overkill to ask for a
password if you
want to setup your printer.

I'll just try to build QtCreator from source and remove the fsync
lines and use it for
myself, by now I'm not interested in any changes to the QtCreator project.


On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen
<oswald.buddenhagen at qt.io> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 04:48:26AM +0300, Ursache Vladimir wrote:
>> The problem here I think is that an option without fsync is not
>> welcome,
>>
> the thing is that you totally want it until a system crash or power
> outage eats your files. it's not that just the new contents are not
> saved - your pre-existing files are *gone*. that may be quite annoying
> even when you use version control.
>
> come to think of it, it would be acceptable to provide non-fsync mode if
> the original file was preserved - i.e., if there was a saving mode which
> renames the old file to <file><your-favorite-backup-file-extension-here>
> rather than just replacing it.
> i'd totally welcome a respective enabler contribution to qsavefile. ;)
>
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