From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265212AbUETVr0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2004 17:47:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265184AbUETVr0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2004 17:47:26 -0400 Received: from fate.eng.buffalo.edu ([128.205.25.5]:59104 "EHLO fate.eng.buffalo.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265212AbUETVrT (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2004 17:47:19 -0400 Message-ID: <40AD28E0.2080705@eng.buffalo.edu> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 17:53:36 -0400 From: Gopikrishnan Sidhardhan User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Data loss on IDE drive after crash References: <40AD0365.6040003@eng.buffalo.edu> <1085081357.2044.1.camel@cassius.public.buffalo.edu> <20040520233312.B2172@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> In-Reply-To: <20040520233312.B2172@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: fate.eng.buffalo.edu 1029; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Francois Romieu wrote: >Gopikrishnan Sidhardhan : >[...] > > >>>At that point, I had my X configuration file open. >>> >>> >>This is not quite true. I had just written to it and closed it. Sorry >>for the confusion. >> >> > >sync ? > >-- >Ueimor > > Is it? The file has totally disppeared. Isn't it because the inode has been marked as belonging to a deleted file? Thanks, --Gopi