From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [2.6.30 and later] file corruption on ext3 filesystem. Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:01:36 +0100 Message-ID: <20100115200136.GD1345@ucw.cz> References: <201001080254.o082sOXB018423@www262.sakura.ne.jp> <20100108123641.GB8654@discord.disaster> <201001082215.EJH52647.JLtFSFFVQOHMOO@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> <20100108151915.GC8654@discord.disaster> <201001091153.FAC21374.OFOFMJQVOSFLtH@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> <4B4B8664.6000200@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Tetsuo Handa , david@fromorbit.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Ric Wheeler Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B4B8664.6000200@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Hi! >>> http://lwn.net/Articles/328363/ >>> >> Thank you for the pointer. >> >> Indeed, most Linux boxes are used by single user. >> But implicitly importing other deleted file's data is still annoying >> even if the box is used by only one user. >> >> When I was trying to identify the steps to reproduce, I got ./a.out replaced >> by the deleted .bash_history due to power failure. I executed ./a.out as root >> without knowing that the file contains deleted .bash_history , and many >> commands listed in deleted .bash_history are executed as root. >> I thought my box was cracked and trojaned. :-( > > Fedora and some other distributions changed the default back to data > ordered mode in order to avoid exactly this kind of mess. Even if you > are on a single user system, this behavior is certainly unexpected for > most users :-) Also there's config option to get back the old behaviour. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html