From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>,
Christian Stroetmann <stroetmann@ontolinux.com>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Atomic non-durable file write API
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:05:36 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101229110536.GA15179@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimxbjEntSBYxzxnHnOOCUkdNyGWJ40HGG=0d0E5@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 05:00:55PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> If I am working on a office doc with oowriter as an example, I don't
> want a system crash or out of diskspace to kill my original doc. 7 or
> 8 years ago XFS used to zero out the file in situations like that.
FUD. XFS has _never_ zeroed files during recovery. This gets repeated
often enough that we've even got a FAQ entry for it:
http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_Why_do_I_see_binary_NULLS_in_some_files_after_recovery_when_I_unplugged_the_power.3F
> Hopefully that's fixed.
4 years ago...
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-29 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2010-12-09 12:03 ` Atomic non-durable file write API Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-16 12:22 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-16 20:11 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-12-18 22:15 ` Calvin Walton
2010-12-19 16:39 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-23 15:49 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-23 21:51 ` Neil Brown
2010-12-23 22:22 ` Ted Ts'o
[not found] ` <4D13E98D.8070105@ontolinux.com>
[not found] ` <20101224004825.GF12763@thunk.org>
[not found] ` <4D13F09D.4010703@ontolinux.com>
[not found] ` <20101224095105.GG12763@thunk.org>
2010-12-24 11:14 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-25 3:15 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-12-25 10:41 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-25 11:33 ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-25 15:24 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-25 17:25 ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-26 15:08 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-26 15:55 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-12-26 16:02 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-26 16:27 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-12-26 18:26 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-26 16:43 ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-26 18:51 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-26 22:10 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-12-27 0:30 ` Christian Stroetmann
2010-12-27 1:04 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-12-27 1:30 ` Christian Stroetmann
2010-12-27 2:53 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-12-27 10:21 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-27 11:07 ` Marco Stornelli
2010-12-27 15:30 ` Christian Stroetmann
2010-12-27 19:07 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-27 19:30 ` Christian Stroetmann
2010-12-28 17:22 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-28 20:59 ` Neil Brown
2010-12-28 22:00 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-12-28 22:06 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-28 22:15 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-12-28 22:28 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-28 22:35 ` Neil Brown
2010-12-29 11:05 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2010-12-28 22:10 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-28 22:31 ` Neil Brown
2010-12-28 22:54 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-28 23:42 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-12-29 9:09 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-29 15:30 ` Christian Stroetmann
2010-12-29 15:41 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-29 16:30 ` Christian Stroetmann
2010-12-29 17:14 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-30 0:50 ` Neil Brown
2011-01-07 14:23 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-27 4:12 ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-27 11:48 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-27 12:43 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-28 0:45 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-12-24 11:17 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-25 21:40 ` Neil Brown
2010-12-23 22:43 ` Dave Chinner
2010-12-23 22:47 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-12-26 9:59 ` Amir Goldstein
2010-12-26 15:23 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-26 16:52 ` Nick Piggin
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