This is part four in a continuing series about how we are working around the slow fsync issue in Mozilla. Part one can be found here, part two here, and part three here.
Boy, some of the initial planning to solve this problem has changed. I found several bugs in my triggers, which made my life not so fun. Now if you google the word fsync, my website is the first result returned (scary!). Never fear, however! I have good news. The places team has put together an experimental build that should help greatly. Before I link to the build though, I have a warning:
Do not use your normal profile – crate a copy of it to test this build. This build will modify the places database schema, and if you go back to a normal build, you will experience some strange behavior.
With that out of the way, the builds can be found here and will be available for the next seven days.
Feedback is not only welcomed, but wanted. You can track the overall progress of this task in bug 442967