From: Iustin Pop <iusty@k1024.org>
To: Jeff Briggs <ephemeral.elusive@gmail.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS null files
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 23:22:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060806212211.GA2154@teal.hq.k1024.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d59530608061232r21feab01j456c7d1fec742958@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 08:32:49PM +0100, Jeff Briggs wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I've just lost data to XFS, with the files full of nulls. I've found
> posts dating back over two years about such data losses. I'm using
> linux 2.6.17 with xfsprogs 2.8.10.
FWIW, I've never lost files since disabling write cache on disks.
>
> emacs claims to fsync on write, yet still I lost data, the faq
> suggests I should not have if this is so?
Have you disabled the write cache of your storage, or is your storage
battery-backed?
Iustin Pop
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-06 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-06 19:32 XFS null files Jeff Briggs
2006-08-06 21:22 ` Iustin Pop [this message]
2006-08-06 22:22 ` Russell Cattelan
2006-08-15 22:14 ` Jeff Briggs
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